What is the name of the American playwright born in April 1945, who wrote Joe Turner's Come and Gone?
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, "The Pittsburgh Cycle". The play was first staged 1984 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and opened on Broadway on 27 March 1988 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre—running for 105 performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast included Delroy Lindo as Herald Loomis and television and movie star Angela Bassett, as Loomis's wife, Martha.
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August Wilson August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, "The Pittsburgh Cycle", for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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Richard Walton Tully Richard Walton Tully (May 7, 1877 – February 1, 1945) was an American playwright.
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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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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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Joe Gulla Joe Gulla (born July 23, 1964) is an American playwright, actor and reality television participant. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he writes and performs for the theater. HIs best known work, "Bronx Queen Trilogy" is based on his experience growing up as a gay boy in the Bronx.
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Leslie Jordan Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American actor and playwright.
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Oreste Calleja Oreste Calleja (born November 20, 1946) is a Maltese playwright.
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Walter Bobbie Walter Bobbie (born November 18, 1945) is an American theatre director, choreographer, and occasional actor and dancer. Bobbie has directed both musicals and plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and was the Artistic Director of the New York City Center Encores! concert series. He directed the long-running revival of the musical "Chicago."
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Madame Louise (play) Madame Louise is a 1945 comedy play by the British writer Vernon Sylvaine.
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Martin Blank (playwright) Martin Blank is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer.
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Jo Carol Pierce Jo Carol Pierce (born July 20, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter who has lived in Austin, Texas since 1970. In 1993, Karen Schoemer described Pierce as "an official local hero in her adopted hometown."
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Michael Townsend Smith Michael Townsend Smith (born October 5, 1935) is an American man of the theater. He has worked as a playwright, director, impresario, critic, and lighting designer.
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Jim Neu James A. Neu (November 18, 1943 – July 19, 2010) was an American playwright who was best known for his quirky, experimental plays, many of which were staged Off-Off-Broadway.
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Alice Randall Alice Randall (born May 4, 1959) is an American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel "The Wind Done Gone", a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind".
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Michael Ventura Michael Ventura (born October 31, 1945) is an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and cultural critic.
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David-Matthew Barnes David-Matthew Barnes (born September 3, 1970) is an American author, playwright, poet, and screenwriter.
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Daniel J. Sullivan Daniel J. Sullivan (born June 11, 1940) is an American theatre and film director and playwright.
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Matthew Cowles Matthew Cowles (September 28, 1944 – May 22, 2014) was an American actor and playwright.
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David Young (Canadian playwright) David Samuel D'Arcy Young (born 17 July 1946 Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.
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J. E. Franklin J. E. Franklin (born August 10, 1937) is an American playwright, best known for her play, "Black Girl", which was later made into a 1972 feature film.
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Joseph Arthur (playwright) Joseph Arthur (1848 – February 20, 1906) was an American playwright best known for his popular (though not critically acclaimed) melodramatic plays of the 1880s and 1890s, including "The Still Alarm" (1887) and "Blue Jeans" (1890).