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Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks was the first African-American woman to receive the award for drama. [1] She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
The verbal fireworks of Suzan-Lori Parks’ plays invariably dispel the gloom that could otherwise engulf some of her main subjects: lies, loss, death. Her confident ear for the undaunted, unstoppable poetry that lies beneath the cruelest fates makes her plays resonate far beyond their singular subjects.
Feb 1, 2019 · As an adult, Parks grew to realize her calling is actually “ambassador for the human race.”. Suzan-Lori Parks was born on May 10, 1963 in Fort Knox, Kentucky, right down the road from Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace. Her father was a career army officer, serving a tour in Korea and two in Vietnam while her family traveled around back home.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. “an Equation for Black People Onstage.” The America Play and Other Works, edited by Suzan-Lori Parks, TCG, 1995, pp. 19-22. ———. “Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World.” The America Play and Other Works, edited by Suzan-Lori Parks, TCG, 1995, pp. 99-132. ———. Father Comes Home From the Wars ...
With acute historical awareness, African American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks uses abundant signs in the form of words, movements, sights, and sounds in her plays to create an imagined world, helping readers and audiences to revisit forgotten and neglected history and contemplate on how to read Africana history. In Venus , she wields rapid transformation of space, inserts a play-within-the ...
May 18, 2023 · It's safe to call the 2022-23 theatre season "the Season of Suzan-Lori." Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has been everywhere on the American theatre scene, with three world-premiere shows hitting the stage within months of each other: the theatrical concert Plays for the Plague Year, the musical The Harder They Come (for which Parks wrote the book), both at The Public Theater, and the play Sally ...
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ABOUT. CALENDAR. Zoom Live on select Mondays at 5:00PM EST. Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams ...
