Carlyle Brown Explained

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.

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

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carlyle Brown & Company » Carlyle Brown. Carlylebrownandcompany.org. 8 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20161222110943/http://carlylebrownandcompany.org/company/carlyle-brown/. 2016-12-22. live.
  2. Web site: Carlyle Brown . Penumbratheatre.org . Penumbra Theatre Company.
  3. Web site: Carlyle Brown . Goodmantheatre.org . Goodman Theatre.
  4. News: Twin Cities playwright Carlyle Brown on Shakespeare and cultural identity. Star Tribune. 2018-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20170430202506/http://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-playwright-carlyle-brown-on-shakespeare-and-cultural-identity/373410141/. 2017-04-30. live.
  5. News: At 59E59 Theaters, a Civil War-Era Tale of Black Jockeys and High Stakes. Saltz. Rachel. The New York Times . 28 May 2009 . 2018-07-17. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20180225000840/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/theater/reviews/29pure.html. 2018-02-25. live.
  6. Web site: Carlyle Brown. Playwrights' Center. en. 2018-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20170706133114/https://pwcenter.org/profile/carlyle-brown. 2017-07-06. live.
  7. News: Playwright Carlyle Brown Named 2018 William Inge Theater Festival Honoree. BWW News Desk. BroadwayWorld.com. 2018-07-17. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20180129034410/https://www.broadwayworld.com/wichita/article/Playwright-Carlyle-Brown-Named-2018-William-Inge-Theater-Festival-Honoree-20171104. 2018-01-29. live.
  8. Web site: Carlyle Brown. United States Artists. en-US. 2018-07-17.
  9. News: On Stage: Carlyle Brown. Coleman. Sanda Moore. 2018-07-17. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20171120225326/http://kmuw.org/post/stage-carlyle-brown. 2017-11-20. live.
  10. Book: Brown, Carlyle. The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show. 1992. Dramatists Play Service Inc. 9780822206798. en.
  11. Book: Brown, Carlyle. The African Company Presents Richard III. 1994. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 9780822213789. en.
  12. Book: The New Yorker. June 2009. New Yorker Magazine, Incorporated. en.
  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. en. 65. 1. 113–117. 10.1353/tj.2013.0019. 161969215. 1086-332X. 2018-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20180602064528/http://muse.jhu.edu/article/502514. 2018-06-02. live.
  14. Book: Brown, Carlyle. Abe Lincoln and Uncle Tom in the White House. 2018-06-18. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 9780822237853. en.
  15. Book: Brown, Carlyle. Down in Mississippi. 2018-06-18. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 9780822237839. en.
  16. Web site: Carlyle Brown . Wexarts.org . Wex Arts.
  17. Web site: A Lover's Guide to American Playwrights . Howlround.com. 4 June 2018 .
  18. Web site: Carlyle Brown:Facilitator of the Program, US . Camargofoundation.org . Camargo Foundation.
  19. Web site: Carlyle Brown . Americanplayers.org . American Players Theatre . 2018-10-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180611195320/https://americanplayers.org/about/people/carlyle-brown . 2018-06-11 . live .
  20. Web site: Carlyle Brown discusses his new play, 'Acting Black' . Rollingout.com. 10 May 2018 .

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