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VG: Artist Biography: Parks, Suzan-Lori Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks was born in 1964 in Fort Knox, Kentucky, the daughter of an Army colonel. "The Possession of Suzan-Lori Parks." American Theatre 17(8): 22-26, 132-34. Wilmer, S. "Restaging the Nation: The Work of Suzan-Lori Parks." Modern Drama 43(3) (Fall 2000): 442-52. voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/parks_suzanlori.html   (1074 words)

Suzan-Lori Parks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suzan-Lori Parks (1964 -) is an African-American playwright and novelist. Parks wrote her first screenplay for the 1996 Spike Lee movie called Girl 6 (the story of an aspiring actress who works for a phone-sex hotline). While a student at Mount Holyoke, Parks took a writing class with Five Colleges faculty member James Baldwin. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suzan-Lori_Parks   (212 words)

"F***ing A" by Suzan-Lori Parks Parks' slip of the A raises contemporary questions about rights to life, the death penalty, the inequitable incarceration of black men, and the torture of prisoners held without legal recourse. Parks' character Hester Smith works hard to save enough money to buy a single picnic outing with her son who has been imprisoned since he was a boy — so long that Hester can barely remember him. Parks is a playwright, songwriter, screenwriter and novelist - her first novel, Getting Mother's Body, will be published this spring by Random House. riroads.com /news/20041121fa.htm   (492 words)

Restaging the Nation Suzan-Lori Parks is an African-American writer in her mid-thirties who has appeared in the 1990s as a major voice in the theatre. Parks has replaced the “aura”5 of historical event or epoch with the notion of time as infinitely repeatable, as in a video, with archetypal characters or “figures” who can live through centuries of oppression in a matter of minutes. 7 Parks has also said that writing plays is, for her, similar to trying to drag characters out of a space that seems to resemble the great hole of history: “I look into the darkness because that’s where the people live who populate my plays. www.utpjournals.com /product/md/433/nation7.html   (4010 words)

Women of Color Women of Word -- African American Female Playwrights - Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks was born in Kentucky and lives in Manhattan. Solomon, Alisa: "Signifying on the Signifyin': The Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks". "A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, "Topdog/Underdog" is Suzan-Lori Parks' latest riff on the way we are defined by history. www.scils.rutgers.edu /~cybers/parks2.html   (854 words)

Stage Preview: Suzan-Lori Parks turned the story of two con men into a Pulitzer winner with 'Topdog/Underdog' Parks was talking from her front yard in Los Angeles, where she runs the grad program in writing for performance at California Institute of the Arts. But Parks leaves all that up to the audience: "I don't know if it means anything besides what it is," she says. Parks has written a novel of her own, "Getting Mother's Body," published last year by Random House and coming out in paperback this April. www.post-gazette.com /pg/04065/281245.stm   (963 words)

ajc.com Living Q&A / SUZAN-LORI PARKS ajc.com Suzan-Lori Parks, 38 is a playwright and director of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. • Suzan-Lori Parks will talk about her work at 7 p.m. Parks lives in Venice, Calif., with her husband, Paul Oscher, a blues musician who played for years with Muddy Waters and is helping her polish her singing and guitar-playing skills. www.ajc.com /living/content/living/books/0603/08parks.html   (1803 words)

Temples for Tomorrow Suzan-Lori Parks was born in 1964 in Fort Knox Kentucky, a self-labeled "Army brat." When the family was eventually stationed in Germany, Parks attended German high school instead of the English speaking school for military children. Suzan-Lori Parks lives in Venice Beach, California with her husband, blues-musician Paul Oscher. Parks is currently creating a screenplay of Toni Morrison's Paradise, writing a stage musical called "Hoopz", working as a director at the California Institute of the Arts and enjoying the success of her first novel, Getting Mother's Body. www.cofc.edu /%7Efrancisc/parks.html   (726 words)

Suzan-Lori Parks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1964) is an African-American playwright and novelist. This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Suzan-Lori Parks contains research on Suzan-Lori Parks - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Suzan-Lori_Parks   (202 words)

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks joins this year’s MLK, Jr. celebration - Feature Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks joins this year’s MLK, Jr. A selection committee chose Parks to speak because of her achievements as a playwright and writer. Born in 1964 in rural Kentucky, Parks went on to study at Mount Holyoke College and the Yale School of Drama. www.dailyorange.com /news/2003/01/17/Feature/Pulitzer.PrizeWinning.Playwright.SuzanLori.Parks.Joins.This.Year8217s.Mlk.Jr.Ce-346717.shtml   (488 words)

Drama: Suzan-Lori Parks A November 1999 profile of Suzan-Lori Parks by James Hannaham in the Village Voice. Parks is the child of an army officer and therefore grew up in several different locations. Her play Venus (1996) focuses on the life of a black woman brought to England as the Venus Hottentot, a sideshow freak displaying "an intensely ugly figure, distorted beyond all European notions of beauty." Parks has also written Girl 6 (1996), a film directed by Spike Lee. www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/parks.htm   (526 words)

SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Suzan Lori Parks Working from Hurston's original novel, the script was penned by Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama (for her play Topdog/Underdog, in 2002); the director Darnell Martin is a TV veteran with credits on ER, Oz and Homicide: Life on the Streets. A few years ago, she was unforgettable as a poor-abortionist version of Hester Prynne in a knotty Suzan-Lori Parks drama with an unprintable title. Suzan-Lori Parks, for her part, is flirting shamelessly with greatness. authors.surfwax.com /files/Suzan-Lori_Parks_Book.html   (2743 words)

Topdog/Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks Its neophyte author was a 21-year old African-American woman, Suzan-Lori Parks. Shepard and Parks' siblings evoke different margins of American culture (tacky white exurbia, black ghetto), but each dysfunctional family has a drunken, rejecting father who initiates the brothers' need to find a means of surviving and creating individual identity amidst hostile indifference. But as in all of Parks' works, the allegorical level hovers nearby, and the interplay of characters named Lincoln and Booth resonates inevitably with more than merely psychological dimensions. www.culturevulture.net /Theater3/TopDog.htm   (875 words)

suzan-lori parks Parks, more than any other recent writer--more than August Wilson or other polemicists "fired," as Wilson has written, in the "kiln" of the '60s--shows, mostly through her sense of humor, exactly how and why trying to make black history a minor subplot of a white story is laughable. Parks had already learned from her favorite fiction writers, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, that she could do anything she wanted with language, and that character and feeling needn't be sacrificed at the high altar of formal experimentation. Parks dances and plays music as she writes; she practices karate and yoga and has a physical presence that can fill a whole room, whether or not she is speaking. www.tcg.org /am_theatre/at_articles/AT_Volume_17/Oct00/at_web1000_parks.html   (4936 words)

Tavis Smiley . Archive . Wednesday May 19th . Transcript PBS Tonight Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright and novelist Suzan-Lori Parks. Suzan-Lori Parks: Thank you so much for having me. I have been great. So, for those who've not heard the Suzan-Lori Parks story about this teacher--Do you know where this teacher is now? www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200405/20040519_transcript.html   (4442 words)

Suzan-Lori Parks digs up a winner in "Getting Mother's Body" lawrence.com Parks was raised in a military family, constantly moving from place to place, and her worldly experiences are a large part of her success as a writer. However, while Parks' resume is certainly daunting, her first novel is anything but. The true beauty of Parks' writing lies in her characters. www.lawrence.com /news/books/story/125822   (719 words)

Suzan-Lori Parks '85 Receives MacArthur "Genius Grant" Screenwriter and Obie Award-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks '85, who has tackled subjects ranging from racism and homelessness to sexual hypocrisy in her avant-garde plays, has received a prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant." Parks is one of twenty-three recipients of this year's fellowships. Parks received the College's Mary Lyon Award in 1993 and was awarded a doctor of arts degree last May. Parks produced a film, Anemone Me, wrote the screen adaptation of the novel Gal for Universal, and rewrote God's Country for Jodie Foster and Egg Pictures. www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/102601/parks.shtml   (1047 words)

Steven Barclay Agency - Suzan-Lori Parks In Suzan-Lori Parks’ writing, the dead and the past are ever-present; bodies are unearthed, family secrets revealed, and historical deceits examined. Set in the west Texas of her youth, Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly acclaimed first novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows the survivors of Willa Mae Beade who is rumored to be buried with a fortune in jewels. Parks’ creative writing teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, was among the first to recognize Parks’ dramatic skills and declared that she “may become one of the most valuable artists of our time. www.barclayagency.com /parks_print.html   (420 words)

Pulitzer Prize winner shakes off labels csmonitor.com Parks tells the story with a giggle, to explain how her work has earned the label "experimental" – at least until now. Parks and her husband, jazz musician Paul Oscher, have homes in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Venice, Calif., where she leads a graduate playwriting program at California Institute for the Arts. Parks already had won two Obies (best off-Broadway play awards), a MacArthur "Genius" award, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for "In The Blood" (1999) for plays that dissect the black experience in collision with a white man's society. www.csmonitor.com /2002/0412/p19s01-alip.html   (961 words)

BBC News ARTS Historic Pulitzer drama victory American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has become the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama with her play about sibling rivalry. Parks said: "Topdog/Underdog has a lot to do with the artifice of everyday life, with the performative aspect of life, with the masks we wear, with characters who are between a rock and a hard place. Parks says her play is about the artifice of life news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1918000/1918297.stm   (509 words)

1994 FNAP Grant Recipient--Suzan-Lori Parks Suzan-Lori Parks is the author of Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, which received a 1990 Obie Award for Best Play and was produced by BACA Downtown in Brooklyn. Parks is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writers Award and two National Endowment for the Arts playwriting fellowships and has been awarded grants by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. From this story, Parks has crafted an epic play which examines such issues as the objectification of people and cultures; our fascination with what is "heathen" or foreign; and how people are influenced more often by appearances than substance. www.kennedy-center.org /programs/theater/fnap/parks.html   (339 words)

Amazon.com: Getting Mother's Body : A Novel: Books The America Play and Other Works by Suzan-Lori Parks Parks narrates her brief chapters from the point of view of different characters, giving each a distinctive voice; blues songs are interwoven with the text. Parks is influenced here by William Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, something I don't see much of although I did hear her in an interview recently say nice things about Faulkner. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400060222?v=glance   (2156 words)

Fucking A, a CurtainUp review Given her Pulitzer Prize, numerous pending projects and a happy marriage to a musician, Suzan-Lori Parks' own life obviously makes for a far more positive picture of the African-American experience than she has so far depicted for the characters in her plays. To enhance the sense of the outsider status of her female characters, Parks has also invented a language which she calls "Talk." These brief bursts of foreign-sounding gibberish about female matters don't add much to the play. While Merkerson is the center of this blood-soaked tale, Mos Def is touching as the "angel" son turned monster convict. www.curtainup.com /fuckinga.html   (921 words)

Online NewsHour: Pulitzer for Drama -- April 11, 2002 ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: This year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Suzan-Lori Parks for her play "Topdog/Underdog." The play is about two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, they're con men: Booth a wannabe card hustler, and Lincoln, a reformed one. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: We're now joined by the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Suzan-Lori Parks thanks for being with us and congratulations again. www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/jan-june02/parks_4-11.html   (1480 words)

Fucking A - Suzan-Lori Parks Its neophyte author was a 20-something African-American woman, Suzan-Lori Parks, and word soon began to spread among those interested in new theater that something extraordinary was on view across the bridge. Parks has more than fulfilled her promise to become one of our preeminent dramatic voices, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for last year's The peerless Parks can be faulted in this one regard: she mistitles her Hester plays. www.culturevulture.net /Theater5/FuckinA.htm   (1011 words)

Venus - Suzan-Lori Parks The awesome Suzan-Lori Parks here tells of Saartjie Baartman, a historical person, famous as The Venus Hottentot. Writes Parks in her bio at the back of the play: "'Tell all the Truth but tell it slant,' as Emily Dickinson says. But it seems Parks created this, because no bibliographic references are made. www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-1559361352.html   (622 words)

Suzan-Lori Parks topic of book discussion at IU Northwest In April 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first black woman playwright to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play “Topdog/Underdog.” Her first novel, Getting Mother’s Body, is a critically acclaimed work of fiction often compared to the classic works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. The novel follows dirt poor, pregnant 16-year-old Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, who comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket. While everyone agrees it’s only polite to speak of getting mother’s body and moving her to a proper resting place, it’s well understood that digging up Willa Mae’s diamonds and pearls will make the whole trip a lot more worthwhile. www.iun.edu /~newsnw/pg/2004/040109_parksbook.shtml   (410 words)

On Broadway with Suzan-Lori Parks '85 Suzan-Lori Parks '85 (bottom, third from right) with Mount Holyoke fans in New York City. Parks, a former student of Lemly’s, had agreed to meet him, several other faculty members, and his Mount Holyoke modern drama class after the show. Although the May 1 performance of Topdog/Underdog, the play that won Parks the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama, was just days before exams, students had snapped up tickets. www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/vista/summer02/parks.shtml   (489 words)

NPR : The Hills Are Alive for Suzan-Lori Parks Morning Edition, November 30, 2004 · Novelist and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has won acclaim for her depictions of modern African-American life. Suzan-Lori Parks lists scenes from The Sound of Music and Taxi Driver among her favorites. NPR : The Hills Are Alive for Suzan-Lori Parks www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4191707   (265 words)

Theater News - Feature: This Could Be You! - The Pulitzer Prize for Drama goes to Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks; meanwhile, Young Playwrights Inc. seeks out budding dramatists. Suzan-Lori Parks, a 1985 graduate of Mount Holyoke College, won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Parks' play about the intense rivalry between two brothers was produced at the Public Theater last season, starring Don Cheadle and Jeffrey Wright and directed by George C. Wolfe. Parks is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. www.theatermania.com /news/buzzlines/index.cfm?story=2070&cid=1   (638 words)

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