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Charles Gordone plays

Title
Charles Gordone plays, 1976.
Author
Gordone, Charles
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
2
Summary
Collection contains photocopies of two unpublished play scripts.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
Subject
  • Gordone, Charles
  • Frank Silvera Writers Workshop
  • African American dramatists
  • African American authors
  • American drama > African American authors
  • Authors > United States
  • American drama > 20th century
  • Dramatists, American > 20th century
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, actor and director, Charles Gordone was the first black winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, for his "No place to be somebody," 1970.
  • Gordone was also the co-founder, with Godfrey Cambridge, and chairman of the Committee for the Employment of Negro Actors, 1962. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the research team of the Commission on Civil Disorders, 1967. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize and Obie awards, he also received the New York Drama Critics Award, 1970; Drama Desk Award, 1970; and a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1971.
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-A8
Author
Gordone, Charles.
Title
Charles Gordone plays, 1976.
Terms Of Use
Photocopying requires prior permission from Frank Silvera Writers Workshop.
Biography
Playwright, actor and director, Charles Gordone was the first black winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, for his "No place to be somebody," 1970. Gordone was born in Cleveland; he received the B.A. from Los Angeles State College in 1952. Gordone moved to New York, where he tried his hand at acting while working in a Greenwich Village bar. He appeared in numerous plays, won an Obie Award in 1964 for his performance in "Of mice and men." In New York, from 1959 to 1982, he directed several plays. He is the co-founder, with Susan Kouyomjian, of American Stage in Berkeley, CA. In the 1980s he wrote several screenplays for Paramount Pictures.
Gordone was also the co-founder, with Godfrey Cambridge, and chairman of the Committee for the Employment of Negro Actors, 1962. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the research team of the Commission on Civil Disorders, 1967. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize and Obie awards, he also received the New York Drama Critics Award, 1970; Drama Desk Award, 1970; and a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1971.
Linking Entry
Forms a part of: Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. See collection record for more information.
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Finding aid
Added Author
Gordone, Charles. Under the boardwalk.
Gordone, Charles. Last chord.
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
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