Charles Fuller

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Charles H. Fuller, Jr. (born March 5, 1939 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1982 for his play A Soldier's Play .

biography

After visiting the Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia, he studied from 1956 to 1958 at the Villanova University and made after 1959 to 1962 his military service in the US Army . He later completed a postgraduate course in fine arts at La Salle University from 1965 to 1967 and graduated with a Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA). In 1967 he was also a co-founder of the Afro-American Arts Theater in Philadelphia.

He then took up his writing and published his drama debut in 1968 with The Village: A Party (1968). In the following years numerous other stage works appeared such as The Rise (1969), In My Many Names and Days (1972), In The Deepest Part of Sleep (1974), Candidate (1974), First Love (1975), Sunflower Majorette (1975) , The Lay Out Letter (1975), The Brownsville Raid (1976), which was based on a true story of a US Army regiment's involvement in the Brownsville riot in 1906, and Sparrow in Flight (1978).

His play Zooman and the Sign (1979) won the Obie Award in 1981, while he received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1982 for the subsequent play A Soldier's Play from 1981. At the Oscar ceremony in 1985 he was for Sergeant Waters - A Soldier's Story ( A Soldier's Story ) in the category Adapted Screenplay nomination. There were also nominations in the categories of Best Film and Best Supporting Actor ( Adolph Caesar ). In 1987 he provided the script for the film An uprising of old men .

In the following years several other plays appeared such as Eliot's Coming (1988), We (1988), Sally (1989), Prince (1989), Jonquil (1990) and Burner's Frolic (1990).

The plays by Fuller, who is also a member of the Writers Guild of America , are characterized by his impartial, sensitive investigation of relationships, especially between whites and coloreds and between coloreds and a white-dominated bureaucracy .

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SURNAME Fuller, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuller, Charles H. Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania