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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.
The Kilroys' List [1] is a gender parity initiative to end the "systematic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights" in the American theater industry. [2] Gender disparity is defined as the gap of unproduced playwrights' whose plays are being discriminated against based on the writer's gender identification and intersectional identities of race, sexual orientation, ethnicity ...
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"Shuffle Along was a milestone in the development of the black musical, and it became the model by which all black musicals were judged until well into the 1930s." [ 8 ] F. E. Miller and Aubrey Lyles , who wrote the book for Shuffle Along (1921) had met in 1906, and began performing at the "Pekin Theater Stock Company" near Chicago from 1906 to ...
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [6] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [7] Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [8] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 ...
Billed as the perfect book for Jordan Peele fans, “Listen To Your Sister” is about 25-year-old Calla, who has just become guardian to her 16-year-old brother Jamie. Overwhelmed with raising ...
While a graduate student, Williams published Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography in 1999, [2] [3] reviewed in Feminist Collections as "a service to theatrical producers and play enthusiasts alike" by locating more than sixty African American female writers with works published between 1959 and 1997—a group given minimal space in anthologies and other ...
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.