[1][3] The goal of the company was focusing on creating, nurturing, developing, and promoting new writers, directors, performers, and actors within the black community.
Du Bois published a statement concerning the objective of the Krigwa Players in the NAACP magazine The Crisis The plays of a real Negro theatre must be: 1.
Accepting submissions for fiction, essays, verse, and plays, this contest became the major source of new work for the Krigwa Players.
[4] The Krigwa Players' first official season was performed at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library in May 1926,[5] and consisted of two one-acts plays selected as winners of the literary contest in The Crisis, The Broken Banjo by Willis Richardson and The Church Fight by Ruth Ada Gaines-Shelton, and a third one-act by Richardson "Compromise".
The entire production cost $165 and made back $240 in ticket sales, netting the company a modest profit.
With the second annual Crisis awards in 1926, one of the winning plays was selected to be part of the three one-acts; Eulalie Spence's Foreign Mail.
This season also introduced a new interpretive dance and dialogue by J. Gord Arnold entitled Pandora's Box.
The company's biggest success came after entering Eulalie Spence's Fool's Errand into the Fifth Annual National Theatre Tournament.