- Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- Lace Petticoat (1927). Musical comedy.
- Lost (1927). Drama. Written by A.E. Thomas and George Agnew Chamberlain. Directed by 'Rollo Lloyd'. Mansfield Theatre: 28 Mar 1927- Apr 1927 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Florence Archibald (as "Ada"), James Crane (as "Alan Wayne"), Harry Davenport (as "Jones"), Rosalinde Fuller (as "Margarita"), Mercedes Gilbert (as "Honoria"), Mona Kingsley (as "Alice Lansing"), R. Webb Lawrence (as "Macguire"), Louise MacKintosh (as "Mrs. Lansing"), Barbara Ramsey (as "Glen Lansing"), Leon C. Timberlake (as "Bonifacio"), George Henry Trader (as "J.Y. Wayne"), Edward Van Sloan (as "Lieber Ramsey Wallace (as "Gerald Lansing"). Produced by Ramsey Wallace
- Bomboola (1929). Musical (all Black cast).
- The Green Pastures (1930).
- The Green Pastures (1935) (revival).
- Play, Genius, Play! (1935). Comedy. Written by Judith Kandel. Scenic Design by Cirker & Robbins. Directed by Jo Graham. St. James Theatre: 30 Oct 1935- Nov 1935 (closing date unknown/5 performances). Cast: Effie Afton (as "First Girl"), Hardie Albright (as "Paul Carey"), Walter Armin (as "Proprietor"), Barbara Brown (as "Cousin Doris"), Theresa Maxwell Conover (as "Mrs. Margaret Carey"), Clarence Derwent (as "Albert Sterne"), Len Doyle (as "Healey"), John T. Dwyer (as "Uncle Richard"), William Fay (as "Uncle Brian"), Walter Fenner (as "Doctor"), Maurice Freeman (as "Manufacturer"), Mercedes Gilbert (as "Ambrosia"), Charlotte Gloer (as "Eve"), Vaughn Godfrey (as "Pacci"), Ferdinand Gottschalk (as "Mr. Jay Carey"), Butler Hixon (as "Mr. Morgan"), Vera Hurst (as "Cousin Annabelle"), Stapleton Kent (as "Holliday"), Linda Leeds (as "Leda Marshall"), William Morris (as "First Man"), Gertrude Mudge (as "Aunt Nancy"), Gavin Muir (as "Monty"), William Norton (as "Farmer"), Beverly Parker (as "Second Girl"), Sidney Riggs (as "Casazza"), Virginia Sale (as "Jenny"), Saranoff (as "Sascha Noodleman"), Mildred Schroeder (as "Third Girl"), W.W. Shuttleworth (as "Kelly"), Craig Williams (as "Second Man"), Judith Wood (as "Diana Saunders"), Sam Wren (as "Jorje Carey"). Produced by Lew Cantor.
- How Come, Lawd? (1937). Drama. Written by Donald Heywood. Scenic Design by Stagecraft Studios. Directed by Charles J. Adler. 49th Street Theatre: 30 Sep 1937- Oct 1937 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Dorothy Cadoza (as "Babes"), James Fuller (as "Jackknife"), Mercedes Gilbert (as "Mom"), George L. Ingram (as "Yamacraw"), Harry D. Ingram (as "Sammy"), Rex Ingram (as "Big Boy"), Columbus Jackson, Alex Lovejoy, Edgar Martin, Dan Michaels, Hilda Rogers (as "Clorinda"), Homer Tutt (as "Pa"), Leigh Whipper (as "Aloes"). Produced by The Negro Theatre Guild.
- The Searching Wind (1944).
- Carib Song (1945).
- Lysistrata (1946). Comedy (revival). Written by Aristophanes. Book adapted by Gilbert Seldes. Incidental music by Harry Brandt. Choreographed by Felicia Sorel. Directed by James Light. Belasco Theatre: 17 Oct 1946- 19 Oct 1946 (4 performances). Cast: Olive Ball, Service Bell, Valerie Black, Harry Bolden, C.M. Bootsie Davis (as "Senator"), Theresa Brooks, Geri Bryan, George F. Carroll, Marie Cooke, John De Battle, George Dozier, James H. Dunmore, Hanson W. Elkins, Maurice Ellis, Louise E. Evans, Geneva H. Fitch, Pearl Gaines, Minnie Gentry, Mercedes Gilbert (as "Lampito"), Frank Green, Jackie Greene, Laphfawn Gumbs, Gwyn Hale, Erona Harris, Marble Hart, Ann Henry, Rex Ingram (as "President of the Senate"), Tica Janine, Larri Lauria, Eunice Eleanora Miller, Etta Moten (as "Lysistrata"), Hilda Offley, Courtenaye Olden, Bill O'Neil, Lora Pierce, Sidney Poitier (as "Probulos") [Broadway debut], Albert Popwell, Ethel Purnello, Andrew Ratousheff, Edyth Reid, Emory S. Richardson, Jay Riley, Wardell Saunders, Archie Savage (as "Satyr"), H. Roderick Scott, Louis Sharp, P. Jay Sidney (as "Senator"), Mildred Joanne Smith, Hettie Stephens, Jean Stovall, Lou Sealia Swarz, George Thomas, Cherokee Thornton, Margaret Tynes, Beatrice Wade, Phyllis Walker, Emett "Babe" Wallace, Royce Wallace, Fredi Washington, Leigh Whipper (as "Leader of Old Men's Chorus"), Larry Williams, Milton J. Williams, Wilhelmina Williams, Miles Winbush, Wilson Woodbeck. Produced by James Light and Max J. Jelin.
- Tobacco Road (1950). Drama (revival).
- (December 28, 1936) She played Cora Lewis in Langston Hughes' play, "Mulatto," at the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, Illinois with Morris McKenney (William Lewis); James Kirkwood (Col. Thomas Norwood); Evelyn Streich (Sally Lewis); Richard S. Bishop (Talbot); Frank Jacquet (Fred Higgins); J.J. Dillon (Henry Richards); Glen Boles (Robert Lewis); Francis Hallaran (Storekeeper); Dillon Deasey (undertaker); and Allan Moore (Jed Tomkins) in the cast. Martin Jones was producer.
- (April 9 to 16, 1945) She acted in Lillian Hellmans' play, "The Searching Wind," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dennis King, Dudley Digges, Barbara O'Neil, Henry Barnard, Walter Kohler, Sylvestre Lamont, Aldo Aldi, Anthony Carlo, Walter Palm, William Marceau, Donald Foster, and William F. Schoeller in the cast. Howard was set designer. Aline Bernstein was costume designer. Herman Shumlin was producer and director.
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