Listen to actor Maurice Wilson share his experience living in Brooklyn, New York during the Covid-19 pandemic. He describes how his jobs bartending and acting ended due to the closing of restaurants and the stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of the virus, which gave him time to learn French and to draw in 2020.
Maurice shares how opportunities to act on Zoom opened up for him in 2020 and 2021. He acted in a few plays on Zoom, including The Brunch Club and The Portrait of Sissieretta Jones. He later performed The Portrait of Sissieretta Jones in-person in upstate New York in 2021. He also did background on Saturday Night Live in 2021.
Maurice talks about why he didn’t attend any Black Lives Matter protests, because he didn’t want to contract Covid-19 and expose his roommate who was immune-compromised. However, by being a Black man in America, he is living proof that Black Lives Matter.
He also shares how he sadly lost his brother in 2021 and how he continues to grieve the loss in 2022.
