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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.
Pearl Cleage (/ k l ɛ ɡ / KLEG; born December 7, 1948) is an African-American playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist. [1] [2] She is currently the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre and at the Just Us Theater Company.
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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.
Resilience Productions, Monroe County Civic Theater, Babel Theater Project, Off Night Productions provide staged readings for In Her Words festival.
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.
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.
Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...