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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 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.
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Christian Konopka and wife Suzan-Lori Parks pose at the Opening Night of Shakespeare In The Park's "Merry Wives" at The Delacorte Theater on August 6, 2021 in New York City. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
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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May 18, 2023 · Parks intended the play to have that exact universality from the start. Topdog/Underdog reflects "my love of history, my love of Black folks, my love of world culture, my interest in what it means to be alive," she said. Those very themes are why the revival was so relevant 20 years later. In fact, Parks argued, Topdog became even timelier with ...
Suzan-Lori Parks is a multi-award-winning American writer/musician and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog which recently enjoyed its twentieth anniversary Broadway revival. The production won both the 2023 Tony Award, (Best Revival Of A Play) and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
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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.
