Scher’s design for Power to the People: A Huey P. Newton Story, shown at the Public Theater’s LuEsther Hall in 1997, focuses on a photograph of the play’s creator and actor Roger Guenveur Smith. His face is partially obscured by the smoke from the cigarette that he smokes during much of his solo performance as Huey P. Newton, the leader of the Black Panther Party who was murdered in 1989 at the age of 47. Characteristically, Sher also plays with typography here, incorporating the direct quote by Newton that gives the play its title; this detail also references the fact that much of the monologue here is complied from the writings and speeches of Huey Newton himself. In 2001, the play was turned into a film, also starring Roger Guenvuer Smith, by director Spike Lee, who had seen the production at the Public Theater.