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Language and concepts may be changed to fit modern tastes, or to better describe books cataloged. Wordings may not come from in-copyright sources. Woodie King Jr. King was born in Baldwin Springs, Alabama. [2] He graduated high school in 1956 in , , United States, and worked at the Ford Motor Company there for three years. He then worked for the City of Detroit as a draftsman. He founded the New Federal Theatre in 1970. [1] He earned an M.F.A. at Brooklyn College in 1999. [2] Film and stage direction. King has a long list of credits in film and stage direction and production, including the following: Stage Play Year Alliance Theater (Atlanta, Georgia) A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 1994 American Cabaret Theater (Indianapolis,Indiana) Eyes (based on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes were Watching God ) by Mari Evans 1995–1996 American Place Theatre Splendid Mummer 1987 Arena Stage Bermuda International Theatre Festival Checkmates by Ron Milner 1995–1996 Theatre (Brooklyn) Good Black Don't Crack 1993 Broadway (New York) Checkmates 1988 Brooklyn College Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson 1996–1997 Home by Samm-Art Williams 1996–1997 Center Stage of Baltimore Cincinnati Playhouse Cleveland Play House Crossroads Theatre Company (New Brunswick, New Jersey) And The World Laughs With You 1994 Ali 1998–1999 Detroit Repertory Theater Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson 1990 The Ensemble Studio Theater Mudtracks by Regina Taylor 1994 Ford's Theater God's Trombone 1990 GeVa Theatre A Raisin in the Sun 1991 The Member of the Wedding 1992 Indiana Repertory Company Inner City Cultural Center (Los Angeles) Checkmates 1987–1988 Jomandi Theatre New Federal Theatre [1] Checkmates 1995–1996 James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire by Howard Simon 2000 New York Shakespeare Festival Northlight Theatre Ohio State University Angels in America 1998–1999 Pittsburgh Public Theater Sizwe Banzi Is Dead 1976 SUNY Purchase St Louis Black Repertory Theatre Checkmates 1993 Stage West Studio Arena in Buffalo Virginia Museum Theatre Seminole State College of Florida The Piano Lesson by August Wilson 2012. Co-produced plays. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange What the Wine Sellers Buy Reggae The Taking of Miss Janie , which earned the Drama Critic Circle Award. Awards and recognition. 1985 Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Appear and Show Cause 1988 NAACP Image Award for directing Checkmates at the Inner City Cultural Center 1993 AUDELCO awards for Best Director and Best Play for Robert Johnson: Trick The Devil 1997 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement 2003 Paul Robeson Award 2005 Rosetta LeNoire Award 2011 Induction into American Theater Hall of Fame[3] 2014 Theatre Legend Award, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. Works. Woodie King; Earl Anthony (1972). Black Poets and Prophets: The Theory, Practice, and Esthetics of the Pan-Africanist Revolution . New York: New American Library. Woodie King (1981). The Forerunners: Black Poets in America . Washington, D.C: Howard University Press. ISBN 0- 88258-093-0 . Woodie King (1981). Black Theatre: Present Condition . New York: National Black Theatre Touring Circuit. ISBN 0-89062- 133-0 . Ron Milner; Woodie King (1986). Black Drama Anthology . New York: New American Library. ISBN 0-452-00902-2 . Woodie King (1989). New Plays for the Black Theatre . Chicago: Third World Press. ISBN 0-88378-124-7 . Woodie King (1996). The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters . Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers. ISBN 1-55783-219-6 . Woodie King Jr (2000). Voices of Color: 50 Scenes and Monologues by African American Playwrights (Applause Acting Series) . New York: Applause Books. ISBN 1-55783-174-2 . Woodie King Jr (2004). The Impact of Race . New York: Applause Books. ISBN 1-55783-579-9 . Chuck Smith; Woodie King; Leslie Lee; Mark Clayton Southers; Kim Euell; Lisa Ebright (2007). Best Black Plays: the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting . Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0-8101-2390-8 . Related Research Articles. August Wilson was an American playwright. The Federal Theatre Project was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, created not as a cultural activity but as a relief measure to employ artists, writers, directors, and theater workers. It was shaped by national director Hallie Flanagan into a federation of regional theaters that created relevant art, encouraged experimentation in new forms and techniques, and made it possible for millions of Americans to see live theatre for the first time. Although The Federal Theatre project consumed only 0.5% of the allocated budget from the WPA and was widely considered a commercial and critical success, the project became a source of heated political contention. 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Since 1970 The New Federal Theatre has provided its community with a stage and collection of talented performers to express the voices of numerous African-America playwrights. New Federal Theatre boasts nationally known playwrights such as Ron Milner ( Checkmates ), Ed Bullins, and Ntozake Shange as well as actors including Jackée Harry, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, Dick Anthony Williams, Glynn Turman, Taurean Blacque, Samuel L. Jackson, and Laurence Fishburne. The national Black drama anthology : eleven plays from America's leading African-American theaters / E-ZBorrow is the easiest and fastest way to get the book you want (ebooks unavailable). Use ILLiad for articles and chapter scans. If your book is not available on E-ZBorrow, you can request it through ILLiad (ebooks unavailable). You can also use ILLiad to request chapter scans and articles. Holdings Description Table of Contents Comments Similar Items Staff View. 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Daniels, Henry Douglas, Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980. Ethington, Philip J, The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Holdredge, Helen, Mammy Pleasant , New York: Ballantine Books, 1953 (reprint 1972). Hudson, Lynn M, The Making of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth Century San Francisco , Urbana IL: University of Chicago Press, 2003. King, Woodie (ed.), The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America’s Leading African American Theaters , New York: Applause Books, 1995. Lapp, Rudolph M, Blacks in Gold Rush California, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Thurman, Sue Bailey, Pioneers of Negro Origin in California, San Francisco: Acme Publishing Company, 1971. Papers and articles. Bell, Howard H, “Negroes in California, 1849-1859,” Phylon , 2 nd Qtr. 1967, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp 151-160. Bennett, Lerone Jr, “A Historical Detective Story: Mystery of Mary Ellen Pleasant,” Ebony, April 1979 (pp 90-96) and May 1979 (pp 71-86). Read online: Part I Part II , (Link does not go to first page of the article; go to drop-down menu at upper right, and chose PAGE 71.) Conrich, J Lloyd, “The Mammy Pleasant Legend,” unpublished manuscript, California Historical Society. Fisher, James A, “the Struggle for Negro Testimony in California, 1851-1863,” Southern California Quarterly , Dec 1969, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 313-324. —–, “The Political Development of the Black Community in California, 1850-1950,” California Historical Quarterly , sep. 1971, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 256-266. Foster, Lois M, “Annals of the San Francisco Stage, 1850-1880,” Vol. 1. Archive.org. Hudson, Lynn M, “Entertaining Citizenship: Masculinity and Minstrelsy in Post-Emancipation San Francisco,” The Journal of African American History , Spring, 2008, Vol. 93, No. 2, Discourses on Race, Sex, and African American Citizenship (Spring, 2008), pp. 174-197. Siebert, Wilbur H, “The Underground Railroad in Massachusetts,” American Antiquarian Society, April 1935, pp 25-10. Yates-Richard, Meina , “‘In the Wake’ of the ‘Quake: Mary Ellen Pleasant’s Diasporic Hauntings” American Studies , Vol. 58, No. 3, 2019, pp. 37-57. The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisation's collection. Edited by Harvey Young. Online ISBN: 9781139062107 Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139062107. Book description. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights and actors whose efforts helped to fashion a more accurate appearance of black life on stage, and reveal the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and further afield. Chapters also address recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change and ask where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century. Reviews. 'The contributors do not hesitate to question some of the established definitions or to defend original assumptions in order to generate debate and stimulate new discussions.'