Playwright Tag: BIPOC

Charles Gordone was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator. He was the first African American to win the annual […]

Lydia R. Diamond’s award-winning plays include: Smart People, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, Harriet […]

The Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League Award nominated and OBIE, GLAAD and Lucille Lortel Award winning actor, playwright and […]

Plays include MARYS SEACOLE (Obie Award); FAIRVIEW (2019 Pulitzer Prize); REALLY; SOCIAL CREATURES; WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION […]

Fornés was born on May 14, 1930, in Havana, Cuba, to Carlos Luis and Carmen Hismenia Fornés. After her father […]

Charles H. Fuller Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier’s Play, for which he received […]

Jocelyn Bioh is an award-winning Ghanaian-American writer and performer from New York City. Her plays include SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE […]

An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote, performed and […]

Bola Agbaje is a playwright who graduated from the young writers programme at the Royal Court in 2007. Her first […]

Ayad Akhtar was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of “American Dervish,” […]

LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka) is a poet, writer, political activist and teacher. He was born in 1934, in Newark, […]