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Suzan-Lori Parks

Index Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. [1]

71 relations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Abraham Lincoln, Academy of Achievement, American Civil War, American Theatre Wing, Apollo, Callaloo (journal), Drama Studio London, Encyclopædia Britannica, Fort Knox, Fucking A, Getting Mother's Body, Girl 6, Goodman Theatre, Greenwich Village, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harpo Productions, In the Blood (play), James Baldwin, Leah Blatt Glasser, Lucille Lortel Awards, MacArthur Fellows Program, Mary McHenry, Medea, Mount Holyoke College, NAACP Theatre Awards, Native Son (upcoming film), Novelist, NPR, Obie Award, Oedipus, Off-Broadway, Oprah Winfrey, Paul Oscher, PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, Phi Beta Kappa, Playwright, Porgy and Bess, Pueblo, Colorado, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rutgers University, Screenwriter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Spike Lee, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sterling K. Brown, The America Play, The Brooklyn Rail, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, ..., The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, The Great Debaters, The Heidi Chronicles, The John Carroll School, The New Yorker, The Public Theater, Their Eyes Were Watching God (film), Tisch School of the Arts, To the Lighthouse, Topdog/Underdog, United States Army, University of Minnesota, Venus (play), Vermont, Virginia Woolf, W. W. Norton & Company, Wendy Wasserstein, West Germany, Whiting Awards, William Shakespeare, Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes. Expand index (21 more) »

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) (sometimes erroneously called Aberdeen Proving Grounds) is a United States Army facility located adjacent to Aberdeen, Maryland (in Harford County).

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Academy of Achievement

The Academy of Achievement, officially known as the American Academy of Achievement, was founded in 1961 by Sports Illustrated and LIFE magazine photographer Brian Reynolds to bring together accomplished people from diverse fields in order to network and to encourage the next generation of young leaders.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Theatre Wing

The American Theatre Wing, "the Wing" for short, is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement.

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Apollo

Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun; Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Callaloo (journal)

Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1976 by Charles Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief.

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Drama Studio London

Drama Studio London (DSL), based in Ealing, London, United Kingdom, is drama school.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States Army post in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown.

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Fucking A

Fucking A is a play written by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.

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Getting Mother's Body

Getting Mother's Body: A Novel is the 2003 debut novel by Suzan-Lori Parks.

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Girl 6

Girl 6 is an American romantic thriller black comedy film, directed by Spike Lee, about a young innocent struggling actress living in New York City, who becomes a phone sex operator.

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Goodman Theatre

Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Harpo Productions

Harpo Productions (also referred to as Harpo Studios) is a U.S.-based multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey (the name "Harpo" is "Oprah" spelled backwards, and was the name of her on-screen husband in The Color Purple) and is the sole subsidiary of her media and entertainment company, Harpo, Inc.

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In the Blood (play)

In The Blood is a play written by Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered at The Joseph Papp Public Theater in 1999.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic.

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Leah Blatt Glasser

Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College.

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Lucille Lortel Awards

The Lucille Lortel Awards recognize excellence in New York Off-Broadway theatre.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Mary McHenry

Mary Williamson McHenry (born January 23, 1933) is "credited with bringing African-American literature to Mount Holyoke College," where she is Emeritus Professor of English.

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Medea

In Greek mythology, Medea (Μήδεια, Mēdeia, მედეა) was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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NAACP Theatre Awards

The NAACP Theatre Awards are a NAACP member voted awards started in 1991 and presented annually by the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the NAACP to honor outstanding people of color in theatre.

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Native Son (upcoming film)

Native Son is an upcoming American drama film, directed by Rashid Johnson, from a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City.

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Oedipus

Oedipus (Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Paul Oscher

Paul Oscher (born April 5, 1950) is an American blues singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.

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PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award

The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards, commonly referred to as the PEN/Laura Pels Award, is awarded by the PEN American Center.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Laurie Metcalf, Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Gary Sinise in the Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield and is now located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Halsted Street.

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Sterling K. Brown

Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) is an American actor. He starred in the FX drama The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He currently stars as Randall Pearson on the NBC drama This Is Us. The role garnered Brown his second Emmy award, in 2017, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama, as well as his first Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

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The America Play

The America Play is a two-act play that was written by Suzan-Lori Parks in 1993.

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The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal of arts, culture, and politics published monthly in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World is a play by Suzan-Lori Parks.

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The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize or Gish Prize is given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life." It is among the most prestigious and one of the richest prizes in the American arts.

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The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

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The Heidi Chronicles

The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein.

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The John Carroll School

The John Carroll School, established in 1964, is a private, independent, college-preparatory, co-educational Catholic school for grades 9–12.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Public Theater

The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God (film)

Their Eyes Were Watching God is an American Broadcasting Company television movie aired on March 6, 2005 at 9 p.m. EDT based upon Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel of the same name.

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Tisch School of the Arts

The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (also known as Tisch, TNYU, and TTSOA) is a center of study in the performing and media arts.

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To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.

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Topdog/Underdog

Topdog/Underdog is a play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered in 2001 off-Broadway in New York City.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Venus (play)

Venus (1996) is a play by Suzan-Lori Parks.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes

The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes is an American literary award which offers prizes in four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzan-Lori_Parks

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