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Kermit Frazier has been a writer—especially playwright and television writer—as well as a teacher of writing, literature, and theater for nearly forty years. His plays have been produced in New York and around the country. He has written for multiple television series in various genres, including being a head writer for the popular children ...
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The Year of Return by Kermit Frazier. Ever haunted by a tragic river accident when he was 15 and sparked by a promise made to a childhood friend, a 40-year-old African American man travels to Ghana, his first trip to Africa. Traveling with him in mind and spirit is his 80-year-old mother, whose journal entries and sporadic yet cogent memories ...
Jun 23, 2020 · The playwright Kermit Frazier has been sticking close to home, so it’s fortuitous that the protests have come to him — Black Lives Matter demonstrations at Grand Army Plaza and outside the ...
Professor Emeritus Kermit Frazier’s play Kernel of Sanity proves that the difference is minor, if there’s a difference at all. Kernel of Sanity was the first play that Frazier, who actively taught at Adelphi from 2004 to 2017, wrote. It examines the imbalanced relationship between a Black actor and a white actor who had worked together ...
May 24, 2022 · Paperback – May 24, 2022. Playwright and television writer Kermit Frazier began life as a precocious Negro boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.C., during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. As a student at an all-Black elementary school, Kermit was selected for a newly formed honors track at a predominantly white secondary school.
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Kermit Frazier, an Adelphi professor of English and a prolific playwright, is know for art that doesn’t shy away from difficult issues. Race-based violence, racial identity and interracial bonds, even insanity, are among the themes he has explored in the many plays he has written. “I think plays have to deal with things that are relevant ...
