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Antoinette Nwandu is an American playwright based in New York.

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Background

Antoinette Nwandu was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, and was the 2015–2016 Naked Angels Issues Playlab Resident at The New School for Performing Arts. [1] Nwandu was also a 2013–2014 Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Fellow. She frequently performs with the spoken-word ensemble Sister Scribes. [2]

Nwandu has worked with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project, [3] Page73, [4] Ars Nova, [5] The Flea, [6] Naked Angels, Fire This Time, [7] The Movement Theater Company, [8] WordBRIDGE, and Dreamscape Theatre. [9] She has received the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award [10] for Flat Sam in 2009 and the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Prize. [11] She has also been a Playwrights of New York Fellowship finalist, a Page73 Fellowship finalist, an NBT (National Black Theatre) I Am Soul Fellowship finalist, and a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist. [12]

In 2015, Nwandu's play Pass Over was a finalist for the Ruby Prize. [13] It was included on the 2016 Kilroys' List . [14] Pass Over premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in May 2017. [15] The play was recorded live at the Steppenwolf Theatre, adapted for film by co-director Danya Taymor and co-director and producer Spike Lee and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 20, 2018. [16] [17] [18] Its New York debut was at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in June 2018. [19]

Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate was staged at Victory Gardens Theater in 2018 by director Lisa Portes. [20]

Notable works

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References

  1. ↑ "Bio". antoinettenwandu.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Antoinette Nwandu". doollee.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Mentor Project", Cherry Lane Theatre.
  4. ↑ "Page 73 playwrights in 2016-17 seasons, around the country!" Archived 2017-04-12 at the Wayback Machine , Page73.
  5. ↑ "Ars Nova's Play Group: Antoinette Nwandu", YouTube.
  6. ↑ "SERIALS @ The Flea".
  7. ↑ The Fire This Time Festival.
  8. ↑ The Movement Theatre Company at The Common Good.
  9. ↑ The Dreamscape Theatre.
  10. ↑ "The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award", The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
  11. ↑ "NEC’s First Douglas Turner Ward Emerging Writers Award at Tisch NYU", NECArtz.
  12. ↑ "Victory Gardens Completes Casting for 2016 IGNITION Festival of New Plays", Broadway World, August 5, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Announcing the 2015 Ruby Prize Winner Winner and Finalists", Southern Rep Theatre.
  14. ↑ Editors, American Theatre (June 21, 2016). "The Kilroys List 32 Unproduced Works by Women and Trans Playwrights". americantheatre.org. Retrieved March 26, 2017.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ↑ "Antoinette Nwandu". indietheaternow.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Pass Over". IMDb (Internet Movie Database). Amazon. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  17. ↑ Clement, Olivia (June 29, 2018). "10 Moments That Made Pass Over Possible". Playbill.
  18. ↑ "Pass Over". Amazon Prime Video. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  19. ↑ "Chicago actors in LCT3's 'Pass Over'". Chicago Tribune. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  20. ↑ Jones, Chris (March 7, 2017). "Victory Gardens kicks off 2017-18 season with 'Fun Home'". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
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