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Ifa Bayeza (born Wanda Williams) is a playwright, producer, and conceptual theater artist. She wrote the play The Ballad of Emmett Till , which earned her the Edgar Award for Best Play in 2009. [2] She is the sister of Ntozake Shange , and directed Shange's A Photograph: Lovers in Motion , which was a part of the Negro Ensemble Company's 2015 ...
- Plawright, author, producer, stage director
- 2010 Backstage Garland Award for Best Playwriting, 2009 Edgar Award For Best Play, 2007 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference fellowship., Fellowships: 2003 Arna Bontemps Centennial Writer’s Fellowship and the Tuck School Minority Business Executive Program (MBEP).
- 2000–present
- Wanda Williams, Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Ifa Bayeza is an award-winning theatre artist, novelist and educator. She works through both a creative nonfiction and fictional lens to explore pivotal intersections of race throughout history. The Till Trilogy interprets the epic saga of Civil Rights icon Emmett Till. Her novel Some Sing, Some Cry, co-authored with her sister Ntozake Shange ...
Ifa Bayeza is an award-winning writer, conceptual theater artist, novelist and educator.Her critically acclaimed drama The Ballad of Emmett Till, received a Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference fellowship and premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2008, winning the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Play.
Ifa Bayeza is an award-winning playwright, director, novelist and educator. Described as “breathtaking,” “staggering,” “extraordinarily lyrical,” and “triumphant,” her literary style and transcendent themes veer from the intimate to the mythic and compel us to re-examine the deeply embedded ideas we attach to race and gender ...
Ifa Bayeza (on the left, pictured with her sister Ntozake Shange) is an award-winning playwright, producer, and conceptual theater artist. Her works for the stage include Amistad Voices, Club Harlem, Kid Zero, Homer G & the Rhapsodies, and The Ballad of Emmett Till. She is the winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play and a 2007 Eugene O ...
Nov 27, 2022 · Profile: Ifa Bayeza. Ifa Bayeza (born Wanda Williams) is a playwright, producer, and conceptual theater artist. She wrote the play The Ballad of Emmett Till, which earned her the Edgar Award for Best Play in 2009. She is the sister of Ntozake Shange, and directed Shange’s A Photograph: Lovers in Motion, which was a part of the Negro Ensemble ...
Ifa Bayeza is an award-winning theatre artist, novelist, and educator. Her works explore intersections of race from an African centrality. At MacDowell, she worked on One Small Alice, a fictional 1850s fugitive slave narrative exploring the discovery of freedom, identity, independence, and community.
