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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]
May 9, 2024 · Suzan-Lori Parks, American playwright who was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama (for Topdog/Underdog). Her other plays included Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, The America Play, Venus, In the Blood, The Book of Grace, and White Noise.
The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2002) and a pioneer of historically conscious and linguistically complex theater, her work is now taught at drama schools across the country. Parks was born on May 10, 1963 at Fort Knox in Kentucky to Donald and Francis McMillian Parks.
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.
Apr 11, 2024 · In her new play, ‘Sally & Tom,’ Suzan-Lori Parks brings exuberant provocation to the gravest historical questions.
Apr 15, 2024 · Playwright and novelist Suzan Lori-Parks, the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1991, Parks became an Associate Artist at the Yale School of Drama. Her work attracted support from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Apr 16, 2024 · MacArthur Fellow and 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama for Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks tells us about her current play Sally & Tom * now having its NYC premier at the Public Theater. It’s a play-within-a-play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson and combines Parks’ love of American history and theater.
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