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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.
Pages in category "African-American dramatists and playwrights" The following 161 pages are in this category, out of 161 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The African Theater, or the American Theater, had its first produced play on September 17, 1821, which was Richard III. The African Theater moved to 1215 Mercer Street in New York City in the year 1822. Brown has been said to allow a white audience in the theater but were only allowed to sit in the back of the house.
J. Edward Green was an actor, playwright and production manager in the United States. He was born in New Albany, Indiana in 1871. In his early years, he was part of the Black American Troubadours, Black Patti's Troubadours, Scott's Real Refined Negro Minstrels, the King and Bush Colored Minstrels, and Rusco & Holland's Minstrels.
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (May 23, 1859 – August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
In 1821, the group built the African Grove Theatre, the first resident African-American theatre in the United States. [3] The short-lived company was the subject of protests by neighbors, attacks by a rival company, and a racist parody published by newspaper editor and Sheriff of New York Mordecai Manuel Noah . [ 4 ]
This outspoken, dramatic writing about racial violence is sometimes credited with her obscurity as a playwright since such topics were not considered appropriate for a woman at that time. [5] Unlike many African-American playwrights, Johnson refused to give her plays a happy ending since she did not feel it was a realistic outcome.
The Griot (the official journal of the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.) 22.2 (Fall 2003): 47-66. La Bakair. The SUNO REVIEW: A Journal of the Arts and Humanities 1:2 (Spring 2001): 49-88. Mam Phyllis. In Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Elizabeth Brown ...