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  1. Jan 15, 2019 · But when McCraney talked, he didn’t talk about the play or the dialogue. Instead, he talked about grief. Casually, as though it were something that just came to his mind.

    • Carvell Wallace
  2. Nov 29, 2016 · In the conversation that ensued, the playwright discussed the importance of naming characters, adapting the material for the screen, and the gender binds that dark-skinned black men...

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  3. Nov 21, 2016 · Audiences can draw a line from McCraney to Chiron in several clear-cut ways: mothers struggling with addiction; dope dealers doubling as father figures; and—given that McCraney, like Chiron, is gay—black queerness.

  4. Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the play on which the movie is based, both grew up there in the same part of Liberty City, Miami. It’s a historically black community where the ...

  5. Oct 26, 2016 · The accomplished Miami playwright talks about seeing his semi-autobiographical stage piece In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue on the big screen. By Anupa Mistry.

  6. Jan 4, 2017 · Writing to Process the Pain. When Mr. McCraney wrote the screenplay, it was 2003. He had just graduated from DePaul University in Chicago and was headed to the Yale University School of Drama...

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  8. Oct 19, 2016 · Playwright Tarell McCraney and filmmaker Barry Jenkins drew on their own childhood experiences in making Moonlight, a film about a boy growing up in a Miami housing project.

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