Which play, written by a professor of several universities including State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, shared the title of Obie award for Distinguished play?
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Funnyhouse of a Negro Funnyhouse of a Negro is a one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy. "Funnyhouse of a Negro" opened off Broadway in 1964 and won the Obie award for Distinguished Play. It shared this title with Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman". The play was written during the Black Arts Movement in the "theater of the absurd" and is set within the mind of the central character, Sarah. The play is studied in college and university settings more than it is actually performed.
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Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, previously known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for "Tales of the Out and the Gone".
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Carl Hancock Rux Carl Hancock Rux is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, singer/ songwriter. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize winning, "Pagan Operetta" , the novel "Asphalt" (novel) and the OBIE award-winning play "Talk". Rux is also a singer/songwriter with four CDs to his credit, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of dance, theater, film, and contemporary art . Notable collaborators include Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, Nick Cave, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Kenny Leon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Nelson Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Doris Duke Awards for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts Prize, the Bessie Awards and the Alpert Award in the Arts.His archives are housed at the Billy Rose Theater Division of the New York Public Library, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution as well as the Film and Video/Theater and Dance Library of the California Institute of the Arts.
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Sharon Ott Sharon Ott (20th century) is an award-winning director, producer and educator who has worked in regional theaters and opera throughout the United States. Ott is currently the artistic director of the Performing Arts department at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she also teaches. Starting in the fall of 2017, she will assume the Chair of TheatreVCU at Virginia Commonwealth University. Two plays she directed, "A Fierce Longing" and Amlin Gray's "How I Got That Story," won Obies after their New York runs.
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David Mamet David Alan Mamet ( ; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, "The Duck Variations," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and "American Buffalo." His play "Race" opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009, and his play "The Penitent" previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017.
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Brian Clark (playwright) Brian Burgess Clark is a full-time playwright and playwright teacher. He is director of the Perry-Mansfield School of Arts theater program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He was the bicentennial playwright for Worthington, Ohio in the summer of 2003.
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Tracie Chima Utoh Tracie Chima Utoh, also known as Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh, is a Nigerian playwright and Professor of Film and Theatre Design at Nnamdi Azikiwe University. In 2015 she was an ACLS/ASA Presidential Fellow, a scheme which invites " outstanding Africa-based scholars" to attend the African Studies Association annual conference and spend a week in an American institution before the conference.
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George Cram Cook George Cram Cook or Jig Cook (October 7, 1873 – January 14, 1924) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, novelist, poet, and university professor. Believing it was his personal mission to inspire others, Cook led the founding of the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. During his seven-year tenure with the group Cook oversaw the production of nearly one-hundred new plays by fifty American playwrights. He is particularly remembered for producing the first plays of Eugene O'Neill, along with those of Cook's wife Susan Glaspell, and several other noted writers. As a professor at the University of Iowa from 1896 to 1899, Cook taught what is considered to be the first ever creative writing course. Titled "Verse-Making," the course was continued by Cook's colleagues at the university after his departure where it gradually evolved into the world's first and most renowned creative writing program, the famed Iowa Writer's Workshop.
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Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Broadway Play Publishing Inc (BPPI) was established in New York City in 1982 with a mission to publish and license the stage performance rights of the finest contemporary American plays. The Broadway Play Publishing Inc catalog consists of over 1,000 plays and over 300 authors, among them such theatrical luminaries as Constance Congdon, María Irene Fornés, A. R. Gurney, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, Richard Nelson, Eric Overmyer, José Rivera, Naomi Wallace, and many others. Its authors have been produced on Broadway and Off, in London's West End, and in theaters across the United States and around the world. They have won Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, Tony Awards, Obie Awards, the MacArthur Genius Grant, Guggenheim Fellowships, and National Endowment for the Arts grants. Christopher W D Gould, Publisher. Michael Q Fellmeth, Executive Director.
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Jeff Barker (playwright) Jeff Barker (born 1954) is an American playwright, director, professor, and actor. He has written plays such as "Kin", "Unspoken for Time", and "September Bears". He is an advocate for the restoration of the ancient plays of Israel, co-creating "Terror Texts" (with composers Joseph Barker and Heather Josslyn-Cranson) and "And God Said" (with composer Ron Melrose).
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No Villain No Villain is a play written by Arthur Miller during his sophomore year of college in 1936, during spring break. This was his first work, reportedly written in six days in the hope of winning a $250 Hopwood Award in drama, the first of two that he won. "No Villain" explores Marxist theory and inner conflict through an individual facing ruin as a result of a strike.
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The Time of Your Life The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The play opened on Broadway in 1939.
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Plays of Three Decades Plays of Three Decades is a collection of three plays by the prolific playwright, screenwriter, and science writer Robert Ardrey. The three plays included are "Thunder Rock", Ardrey's international classic about hope and human progress; "Jeb", Ardrey's post-World War II civil rights play about a black soldier returning from the Pacific; and "Shadow of Heroes", a documentary drama about the prelude to and aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The last play resulted in the release of two political prisoners from Soviet custody.
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Nahma Sandrow Nahma Sandrow is a scholar of theater and cultural history, and author of the books "Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater"; "God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation"; and "Surrealism: Theater, Arts, Ideas". She is also the author of "Kuni-Leml" and "Vagabond Stars", prize-winning Off-Broadway musicals based on Yiddish theatre material. She is Professor Emerita at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, and has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and elsewhere.
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Elizabeth Alexander (poet) Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, essayist, playwright. After 15 years at Yale University, where she taught poetry and chaired the African American Studies department, Alexander joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2016.
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Rachel (play) Rachel is a play that was written in 1920 by African American teacher, playwright and poet Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958). Grimké submitted the play to the Drama Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). For the first production of the play the program read: "This is the first attempt to use the stage for race propaganda in order to enlighten the American people relative to the lamentable condition of the millions of Colored citizens in this free republic.".
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Steven Dietz Steven Dietz (born June 23, 1958) is an American playwright. With the exception of "Fiction", produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2004, the vast majority of Dietz's plays are produced in American regional theaters. During the 2015-16 season, Dietz premiered three new plays: "Bloomsday" (American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award Citation), "This Random World" (Humana Festival of New American Plays), and the thriller "On Clover Road" (National New Play Network rolling world premiere). In 2010, Dietz was once again named one of the most produced playwrights in America (excluding Shakespeare), placing eighth on the list of the Top Ten Most Produced Playwrights in America, tied with Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee for number of productions. Other recent plays include the black comedy, "Rancho Mirage", and the contemporary riff on Arthur Schnitzler's "Reigen" entitled "American la Ronde". Dietz has taught in the MFA Playwriting and Directing programs at the University of Texas at Austin since 2006 . In addition, he is a Dramatists Guild "Traveling Master", teaching workshops and master classes on playwriting and story-making around the U.S.
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Will Eno Will Eno (born 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His play, "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2005. His play "The Realistic Joneses" appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it received a Drama Desk Special Award and was named Best Play on Broadway by "USA Today", and best American play of 2014 by "The Guardian". His play "The Open House" was presented Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in 2014 and won the Obie Award for Playwriting as well as other awards, and was on both "TIME Magazine" and "Time Out New York " 's Top Ten Plays of 2014.
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American Buffalo (play) American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions it opened on Broadway in 1977.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, for his plays "Appropriate" and "An Octoroon". His play "Gloria" was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has been named a
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Circle Mirror Transformation Circle Mirror Transformation is a play by Annie Baker, centered on drama classes at a community centre in Vermont. The play opened Off-Broadway in 2009 and received the Obie Award for Best New American Play.
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Avraham Oz Avraham Oz (born May 23, 1944) is an Israeli associate professor of Theatre and Hebrew and Comparative literature at the University of Haifa, a translator of plays, operas, and poetry into Hebrew, and a peace activist. He specializes in English theatre and drama, Shakespeare, political theatre, and Theatre theory.