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Informationen zum Autor Harry J. Elam is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is author of Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka ; The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson , winner of the Errol Hill Award; and co-editor of African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader ; Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama ; The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the New Millennium and Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Performance and Popular Culture . His articles have appeared in American Drama , Modern Drama , Theatre Journal , Text and Performance Quarterly as well as journals in Israel, Belgium, Poland and Taiwan and also in several critical anthologies. Douglas A. Jones, Jr. is Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Department of English. He has published several articles and book chapters that span a wide array of issues in (African) American cultural and literary history, race and performance, and American dramatic literature. His first book, The Captive Stage: Black Exception, Performance, and the Proslavery Imagination of the Anetbellum North , is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press. In fall of 2013, he will join the English faculty at Rutgers University. Eisa Davis was the 2012 Alpert Award winner in Theatre and a 2013 Obie Award winner for Sustained Excellence in Performance. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher , and wrote and starred in Angela’s Mixtape , named a best of 2009 by the New Yorker . A former Playwright-in-Residence at Magic Theater, Christina Anderson has gained two PONY nominations, two Susan Smith Blackburn nominations, a Lorraine Hansberry Award, a Wasserstein Prize nomination (Dramatists Guild), and a Lucille Lortel Fellowship (Brown University). Her plays include Good Goods , Man in Love , Inked Baby , Blacktop Sky , Hollow Roots , and Drip . Her work has appeared at Steppenwolf, Penumbra, Yale Rep, A.C.T., The Public Theater, Crowded Fire, and other theatres across the US and UK. Anderson was born and raised in Kansas City, KS. Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright who was awarded the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. His play Every Tongue Confess premiered at Arena Stage, Washington. His musical, On The Levee , premiered at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and was nominated for 11 Audelco Awards including outstanding playwright. His play, And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi , was produced at The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco, and received the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award nomination for outstanding new play. It is published in The Methuen Drama Book of Post-Black Plays . The House That Will Not Stand , a critical success which premiered at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in 2014, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Robert O'Hara received the 2010 NAACP Best Director Award for his direction of Eclipsed by Danai Guiria. He received 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play for Antebellum and an OBIE Award for his Direction of the World Premiere of the critically acclaimed In The Continuum at Primary Stages. He wrote and directed the World Premiere of Insurrection: Holding History at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the piece received the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Undergraduate Acting Program at the NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. J. Nicole Brooks is an actor, director and playwright. As an actor she has appeared in Summertime <...
