Research Catalog
Clayton Riley plays
- Title
- Clayton Riley plays, [1975?].
- Author
- Riley, Clayton
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
- Found In
- c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
- Description
- 3
- Summary
- Collection contains photocopies of two unpublished play scripts.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Plays.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
- Source (note)
- Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
- Biography (note)
- Playwright, director, and drama critic, Clayton Riley was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1935.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 64
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A103
- Author
- Riley, Clayton.
- Title
- Clayton Riley plays, [1975?].
- Terms Of Use
- Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
- Linking Entry
- Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
- Biography
- Playwright, director, and drama critic, Clayton Riley was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1935. Riley is one of the leading interpreters of the Black Arts movement. He was the entertainment editor of the New York Amsterdam News; drama critic of the Liberator; and a contributor to Ebony, the New York Times, Black World, Black Creation, and numerous other periodicals. His work is anthologized in "Harlem" (1970) and the "Black aesthetic" (1971). Clayton Riley taught courses in black drama, literature, music, filmmaking at Fordham University, Howard University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the American Film Institute. he served as production assistant in the filming of "Nothing but a man," 1964. Television appearances include "Black Journal" (1971) and "Black News" (1971). Riley directed "On the goddam lock-in" (Off-Broadway, 1975). He is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild and the Drama Desk, and was associated with the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in New York City.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Riley, Clayton. Over.Riley, Clayton. Gilbeau.Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
- Found In:
- c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 64