Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc is a Tribal Citizen led performing arts and educational program organization based in southwest Ohio with ten of eleven members of the Board of Trustees citizens of American Indian tribes. Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc is committed to casting only Tribal Citizens in native roles in its theatre productions, films, and historical interpretation programs. Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc is producing a new feature film
Stomping Freedom by Kane Stratton and filming is scheduled for October 2025. It is a film about the history of the Shawnee Tribe in Ohio in the late 1700's and the Shawnee language has been incorporated into the script in collaboration with a Shawnee language specialist. Recently, Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc also established a collaboration with Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas to provide American Indian actors for its future productions. Please visit our website
www.cftohio.org and view our trilogy of short films, the
Virtual Performances Project, free of charge. Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc also has a historical interpretation program with educational programs and re-enactments performed in local and state parks, museums, and other cultural sites. In 2024, historical interpretation programs and re-enactments were presented at Historic Huguenot Street in New York, "Feast of the Hunter's Moon" event in Indiana, Southeastern Ohio Historical Center in Ohio, and at the American Revolution Museum of Yorktown in cooperation with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in Virginia. Looking forward in 2025, Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc will present "Tecumseh Memorial Day 2025" with a public event held on October 5, 2025 highlighting the history of the Shawnee People in what is now Clark County, Ohio and a "Planting Seeds" panel presentation. This presentation will include conversation about historically accurate Shawnee clothing and objects, the Shawnee language as well as historical and restorative agricultural practices of the Shawnee. Please consider a generous donation to assist with funding Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc's very important work. The Board of Trustees of Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc would also like to acknowledge the Ohio Arts Council, America 250-Ohio Commission, The Dayton Foundation, Ohio Humanities, Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities, Greene County Parks & Trails, Yellow Springs Community Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, Ltd, the Springfield Foundation, and our individual supporters for their financial support. THANK YOU!!!