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As a theater major at Alfred University in central New York, he became part of an ambitious department that was staging Bertolt Brecht and other European writers and experimenting with unusual settings — he was in a production of “Androcles and the Lion” that was staged in a gymnasium transformed to look like a Roman arena.

“And she clicked with Bernard Shaw right away, as I learned from ‘Androcles.’”

She returned in 2017 as one of the festival’s intern directors, where she assisted Mr. Carroll on Shaw’s audience-friendly “Androcles and the Lion.”

She still has a copy of a program from her junior high production of “Androcles and the Lion.”

Along with Losey’s lively watercolor sketches for productions of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” George Bernard Shaw’s “Androcles and the Lion” and a version of Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” set in “the mythical state of Ebonia,” the show is packed with photographs and newspaper clips from the time, profiling such local African-American stars as Sara Oliver and Joe Staton.