Carlyle Brown

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Carlyle Brown is an American playwright, performer and the artistic director and founder of the Minneapolis-based Carlyle Brown & Company. [1] [2] [3] His notable plays include The African Company Presents Richard the Third [4] , Pure Confidence [5] , The Beggar's Strike, The Negro of Peter the Great, A Big Blue Nail, The Pool Room, Dartmoor Prison, Yellow Moon Rising, Down in the Mississippi and others.

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Brown is a core writer and board member of the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. [6] He is an alumnus of New Dramatists in New York and the recipient of commissions from the Houston Grand Opera, The Children's Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Goodman Theatre and others. [7]

Awards and honors

He is the 2018 William Inge Theater Festival Honoree, [7] a 2010 United States Artists Fellow, [8] a 2010 recipient of the Otto Rene' Castillo Award for Political Theatre, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the 2006 The Black Theatre Network's Winona Lee Fletcher Award for outstanding achievement and artistic excellence. [9]

Plays

Original plays

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References

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  1. ↑ "Carlyle Brown & Company » Carlyle Brown". Carlylebrownandcompany.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Carlyle Brown". Penumbratheatre.org. Penumbra Theatre Company.
  3. ↑ "Carlyle Brown". Goodmantheatre.org. Goodman Theatre.
  4. ↑ "Twin Cities playwright Carlyle Brown on Shakespeare and cultural identity". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  5. ↑ Saltz, Rachel (28 May 2009). "At 59E59 Theaters, a Civil War-Era Tale of Black Jockeys and High Stakes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-02-25. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  6. ↑ "Carlyle Brown". Playwrights' Center. Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  7. 1 2 BWW News Desk. "Playwright Carlyle Brown Named 2018 William Inge Theater Festival Honoree". BroadwayWorld.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  8. ↑ "Carlyle Brown". United States Artists. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  9. ↑ Coleman, Sanda Moore. "On Stage: Carlyle Brown". Archived from the original on 2017-11-20. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  10. ↑ Brown, Carlyle (1992). The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show. Dramatists Play Service Inc. ISBN   9780822206798.
  11. ↑ Brown, Carlyle (1994). The African Company Presents Richard III. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN   9780822213789.
  12. ↑ The New Yorker. New Yorker Magazine, Incorporated. June 2009.
  13. ↑ Martinez, Carra (2013-03-19). "The Amen Corner by James Baldwin, and: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been . . . by Carlyle Brown (review)". Theatre Journal. 65 (1): 113–117. doi:10.1353/tj.2013.0019. ISSN   1086-332X. S2CID   161969215. Archived from the original on 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  14. ↑ Brown, Carlyle (2018-06-18). Abe Lincoln and Uncle Tom in the White House. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN   9780822237853.
  15. ↑ Brown, Carlyle (2018-06-18). Down in Mississippi. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN   9780822237839.
  16. ↑ "Carlyle Brown". Wexarts.org. Wex Arts.
  17. ↑ "A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights". Howlround.com. 4 June 2018.
  18. ↑ "Carlyle Brown:Facilitator of the Program, US". Camargofoundation.org. Camargo Foundation.
  19. ↑ "Carlyle Brown". Americanplayers.org. American Players Theatre. Archived from the original on 2018-06-11. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  20. ↑ "Carlyle Brown discusses his new play, 'Acting Black'". Rollingout.com. 10 May 2018.
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