Former Eyewitness News reporter Art McFarland, who retired from the station last year, is now acting.
He landed the lead role in the play "The Most Dangerous Man in America," co-starring Danny Glover.
Both actors are now taking part in a campaign to raise money for the production.
"I always had a dream of returning to my first love, which was being an actor, and I always planned it that way," McFarland said. "I always said, one day, I'm going to go back. And in fact, I received far more training as an actor than I ever did as a journalist, which was on-the-job training."
MccFarland will play African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the final work of poet and playwright Amiri Baraka.