N'Tare Ali Gault is an actor, poet and playwright. He is a Buffalo native and a member 
of Ujima Theatre Company. Ujima is an award winning company, the only professional 
theatre company in Western New York presenting and developing the work of African 
American artists and the only one founded and managed by a collective of member 
artists.

Gault is also the artistic director and founder of Dream Variation Productions, 
a workshop for area poets and actors in which they refine their skills.

Gault has written, directed, produced and performed in three plays: 
Black Man 's Burden, The Voyage: From Chains to Glory, and Creative Dfferences. He is currently working 
on his fourth play, A Brotha 's Perspective. Gault started his drama training at the age of 
eleven with the Spectra Performing Arts Group, under the tutelage of Vernice Turner, 
Anthony Delgado and Ora Lee Delgato. He appeared in Studio Arena Theater School's 
presentation of The Man Who Came to Dinner, Kyle Cole's Shades of Freedom,Ujima 
Theatre's And Bid Him Sing (based on the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar), Omar 
Lopez' Ancestral Incantations and Paul Robeson Theatre's Woman from the Town.

Gault has been a featured poet with such groups as Naked Voices, Urban Artists and 
Cooperstown Writers' Workshop. He has received writers' residency grants from the 
New York State Council on the Arts, and the Just Buffalo Literary Center. Gault received 
the 1996 Langston Hughes Institute Outstanding Artist of the Year for his many works 
and his community involvement.

Gault is currently working and performing with his new group Poetic Voices, a 
performance poetry, rap and jazz group. He is also finishing up his first novel, Inner City 
Glamour, and is working on his first screen play.