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 Elizabeth Brown-Guillory | |
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Elizabeth Brown-Guillory is an academic, playwright, and performing artist. She is a former professor of English at the University of Houston and is now the Dean of Texas Southern University's Thomas F. Freeman Honors College.
Brown-Guillory has had twelve plays produced in Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, Denver, New Orleans, Houston, Cleveland, and Chicago. Her plays include Bayou Relics', Snapshots of Broken Dolls, Mam Phyllis, La Bakair, When the Ancestors Call, and The Break of Day. Ten of her plays have been published in Black Drama: 1850 to Present, an on-line collection of 1,200 plays by Blacks. [1] Her book, Their Place on the Stage has been described as "a reference work important to anyone studying black women playwrights or black drama". [2]
Brown-Guillory was formerly professor of English at the University of Houston. [1] Since 2009 she is Distinguished Professor of Theatre at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas.
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