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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] . She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. [2]

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   • Notable awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2002)

2. www.britannica.com › biography › Suzan-Lori-ParksSuzan-Lori Parks | Biography, Plays, Movies, & Facts

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   Apr 26, 2024 · 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.

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4. suzanloriparks.com › bioBio - Suzan-Lori Parks

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   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.

5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/04/11 › magazineThe Playwright Who Fearlessly Reimagines America - The New ...

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   Apr 11, 2024 · By Imani Perry. April 11, 2024. When the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks was in high school, a teacher asked what she wanted to be as an adult. Parks already knew. She had been sitting under the...

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     Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog | 2023 Tony Award Nominee

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7. www.womenshistory.org › suzan-lori-parksSuzan-Lori Parks Biography - National Women's History Museum

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   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.

8. achievement.org › achiever › suzan-lori-parksSuzan-Lori Parks | Academy of Achievement

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   Apr 15, 2024 · Suzan-Lori Parks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who explores the African American vernacular and history in her work. Learn about her life, education, influences, and achievements from this audio podcast by the American Academy of Achievement.

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   Who is Suzan-Lori Parks?

   • 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. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

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   Did Suzan-Lori Parks win a Pulitzer Prize?

   • Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks was the first African American woman to be so honored. Time magazine named her one of its “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave.”

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   Did Suzan-Lori Parks win a Tony Award?

   • (Marc J. Franklin) Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play at the 76th Annual Tony Awards. It previously earned two 2002 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, marking Parks as the first Black woman to achieve this honor.

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   Where did Suzan-Lori Parks go to school?

   • Suzan-Lori Parks was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Her father was a career officer in the United States Army, so the family moved frequently while Suzan-Lori was growing up. She went to school in six states, seldom spending more than a year in the same school.

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10. www.nytimes.com › 05 › theaterSuzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere ...

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    Oct 5, 2022 · Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else - The New York Times. The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. “If you...