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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.
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.
Since 1985, the competition has offered a generous cash prize and a professional production for the best work of emerging playwrights of African-American descent who choose to write about the black experience in America. [15] In 2015, Ward was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. [16]
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.
List of Jewish American playwrights; References Further reading. Meserve, Walter J. An Outline History of American Drama, 2nd ed., New York: Feedback Theatrebooks ...
In 1925, W. E. B. Du Bois and Regina Anderson co-founded the Krigwa Players for the sole purpose of advancing African-American playwrights and practitioners. Du Bois wanted to create a theater that followed his belief of "for us, by us, near us, about us," which meant he wanted a troupe of black actors, performing pieces or shows written by ...
Then in 1987, he founded the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, a two-year graduate program. He retired as artistic director from A.R.T. in 2002 but continued serving as its founding director.
See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights (1766–1839) William Dunlap (1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth (1784–1858) James Nelson Barker (1793–1876) John Neal (1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird (1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad (1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt