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When her second play, Betting on the Dust Commander, first premiered, it ran for three nights in a bar in Manhattan's Lower East Side called Gas Station.[22] It is a short, one-act play set in Kentucky, centering around the lives of a couple, Mare and Lucius, who have been married for 110 years.
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963, Fort Knox, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog). Parks, who was writing stories at age five, had a peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a military officer. She attended Mount Holyoke College, South ...
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Apr 15, 2024 · Suzan-Lori Parks and her husband, bluesman Paul Oscher, at the 2007 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies. In a way, you’re sort of demystifying playwriting by saying, “I can write a play a day.”
Apr 11, 2024 · It tells the story of a Black female playwright named Luce and her white director husband, Mike, veterans of a radical outsider theater troupe called Good Company who are trying to break into...
- Imani Perry
Parks’s most acclaimed play, Topdog/Underdog, is about African-American brothers Lincoln and Booth. Lincoln, who works as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator in whiteface (a concept she first wrote about in The America Play ), is staying with Booth after his wife kicked him out of their home.
Suzan-Lori Parks was born on May 10, 1963 in Kentucky, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Genius (2017), Fast X (2023) and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). She has been married to Christian Konopka since 2017. They have one child. She was previously married to Paul Oscher.
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Suzan-Lori Parks was born on 10 May 1963 in Kentucky, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Genius (2017), Fast X (2023) and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). She has been married to Christian Konopka since 2017. They have one child. She was previously married to Paul Oscher.
