Al Sutton


Al Sutton MD is a human rights activist, presently dedicated to ending the ongoing racist genocide in Sudan. He founded African Freedom Coalition with charter members David Livingstone Smith and Molefi Asante. He is a physician who retired from medicine in 1985, after becoming a whistleblower at the hospital of his employment.
He went on to develop real estate, including the first gut rehabs of residential condominiums on the Bowery in the early ‘80s. His current project is the residential renovation of an off-the-grid house on two islands in Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, New York. The building on one island, Columbia Island, was originally built on bedrock in 1940 for use as a CBS Radio and transmission center. The second island, Pea Island, was formerly a recreation center for the Huguenot Yacht Club. His other interests include music, writing, film, and acting:
Music:
Archivist of the late great pianist, Chris Anderson.
Record producer, Alsut Records.
Fiction Writing:
Author of a novel, '
Film:
Producer, writer, and actor of
Acting: Film and Television
: feature film, premiered at South by Southwest. Writer/Director, Madeleine Olnek
Short film. premiered at Sarasota
Network Television
Short film
Short film Official selection, Pasadena Film Festival; Won Best Actor in Festival. Best short film, Skyfest festival, Ashville, N.C.; Official Selection, Stepping Stone Festival, Chennai, India.
Fortune Cookies and Men's Eyes
Stage: As co-founder of the Perfectly Frank Cabaret Theatre, he produced over 40 new plays, mostly in downtown New York venues, including Dixon Place, Home for Contemporary Theatre, and Le Poème. He has also written and performed in a number of his own plays, including, Woman and Man, Lifeguard, and A Little Bumpy.
Documentary Films:
Theatrical Films:'''