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Mary Powell Burrill (August 1881 – March 13, 1946) was an early 20th-century African-American female playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, who inspired Willis Richardson and other students to write plays. Burrill herself wrote plays about the Black Experience, their literary and cultural activities, and the Black Elite.
Lynn Nottage was born on November 2, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. [3] [4] Her mother Ruby Nottage was a schoolteacher and principal; her father Wallace was a child psychologist.
Not only is Cleage a member of the relatively small group of African American female playwrights, but it is made even smaller by her age and notable contributions to major theaters. [12] Cleage had her introduction to playwriting in the 1980s, producing her first play, Puppetplay , in 1981, which was followed by Hospice (1983), Good News (1984 ...
Vickie L. Evans is the force behind the African American Playwrights Group and co-created the BIPOC Playwrights Festival. Meet the Charlotte woman championing opportunities for other Black playwrights
Ntozake Shange (/ ˌ ɛ n t oʊ ˈ z ɑː k i ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ ɡ eɪ / EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-Ê; [1] October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet. [2] As a Black feminist, she addressed issues relating to race and Black power in much of her work.
J. E. Franklin (born August 10, 1937), who publishes under the name J. e. Franklin, is an American playwright, best known for her play Black Girl, which was broadcast on public television in 1969, staged Off-Broadway in 1971, and made into a feature film, Black Girl (1972 film).
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American dramatists and playwrights. It includes dramatists and playwrights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Koritha Mitchell is a professor of American literature at the Ohio State University who obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.In 2011, University of Illinois Press published her book on a study of African-Americans titled Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 which won her numerous awards from the American Theatre & Drama ...