Tarell Alvin McCraney

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Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)

Tarell Alvin McCraney (born October 17, 1980 in Miami , Florida ) is an American playwright and actor . He is a member of the Teo Castellanos / D Projects Theater Company in Miami.

Life

McCraney attended an arts high school in Miami. He earned a bachelor's degree in acting from DePaul University in Chicago . In 2007 he graduated from the Yale School of Drama in Drama .

As an actor, McCraney worked with directors such as Tina Landau from the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, David Cromer and Peter Brook , with whom he also gives workshops.

In 2008 McCraney became International Writer in Residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London . In 2013 he received a MacArthur Fellowship .

As part of a theater school project, McCraney wrote In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue , a text based heavily on his own experience as a gay youth in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami . The text was written for visual implementation rather than theater play and was never performed or published. It was only the director Barry Jenkins , who also came from Liberty City, who discovered the work that had been forgotten and, with McCraney's approval, reworked it into the screenplay for the feature film Moonlight . Both the script and the film won an Oscar at the 2017 awards ceremony .

Works

  • Brother / Sister trilogy
    • The Brothers Size
    • In the Red and Brown Water
    • Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet
  • Without / Sin
  • Run Mourner, Run
  • Wig out!
  • The Breach

Filmography

Secondary literature

  • David Román: The Distant Present of Tarell Alvin McCraney . In: American Quarterly 66: 1, 2014, pp. 181-195.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Allen: Tarell Alvin McCraney: The Man Who Lived 'Moonlight' . On NBC News on October 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME McCraney, Tarell Alvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , Florida , United States