Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963 in Kentucky ) is an American author and playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2002 for her play Topdog / Underdog , making it the first African-American playwright to receive this award .
Life
The daughter of a colonel in the US Army grew up partly in Germany , where she also attended German-speaking schools. After attending school, she studied English and German at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and graduated in 1985. While studying there, the writer James Baldwin was one of her lecturers . Suzan-Lori Parks, who also studied acting in London , later became director of the theater program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia .
During her studies she began writing plays and made her debut in 1984 with The Sinner's Place . Her stage works are influenced by the works of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy and their untraditional writing styles. For the script to Girl 6 of Spike Lee , she was at the Independent Spirit Awards 1997 nominated the prize for best screenplay debut.
After she was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2000 for her play In the Blood , she received this prize in 2002 for the play Topdog / Underdog . She was the first African American woman to receive this award. In addition, the play was nominated for the Tony Award for best play . In 2001 she also received a MacArthur Fellowship , a five-year scholarship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation .
In 2002, Fucking A was released , an adaptation of the material by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter , whereby she destroyed a first adaptation except for the title and the name of the main character, because she did not like this implementation. 2003 wrote Suzan-Lori Parks, with the Blues - musician Paul Osher is married, the novel Getting Mother's Body , in 2006 under the German title , the disabled bride appeared. In 2005 she wrote the screenplay for the film Love Never Dies , filmed by Darnell Martin with Halle Berry and Ruben Santiago-Hudson in the leading roles.
In 2019 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Background literature
- Al Smith-Howard: Suzan-Lori Parks. A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists) , Routledge, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-97381-6
- Deborah R. Geis: Suzan-Lori Parks , University of Michigan Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-472-06946-0
Publications
Dramas
- 1984: The Sinner's Place
- 1987: Betting On The Dust Commander
- 1989: Imperceptible Mutabilities In The Third Kingdom
- 1989: Pickling
- 1990: The America Play
- 1990: The Death Of The Last Black Man In The Whole World
- 1990: Greeks
- 1995: Venus
- 1999: In The Blood
- 2001: Topdog / Underdog
- 2002: Fucking A
- 2007: 365 Days / 365 Plays Festival
- 2007: 7 Plays, 7 Days, 7 Ways (Selections from "365 Days / 365 Plays")
- 2007: Neo-Futurists Meet Susan Lori Parks: NEO-FUTURISTIC REALIZATION OF 365 DAYS / 365
- 2009: Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9)
- 2010: The Book Of Grace
- 2010: Watch Me Work
novel
- 2003: Getting Mother's Body
- in German language
- 2006: The prevented bride, btb, ISBN 978-3-442-73083-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Suzan-Lori Parks in the catalog of the German National Library
- Suzan-Lori Parks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Suzan-Lori Parks in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Publications (openlibrary.org)
- Entry (Complete Guide to Playwrights)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Newly elected members 2019. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 30, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parks, Suzan-Lori |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kentucky |