- Additional Authors
- Negro Ensemble Company
- Found In
- c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A157.
- Description
- 7
- Summary
- Collection contains photocopies of six unpublished play scripts.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Access (note)
- There are no restrictions on access to the plays.
- Source (note)
- Biography (note)
- Playwright, actor, freelance writer, newspaper reporter, and public relations director.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.
- Processing Action (note)
- Call Number
- Sc MG 345
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A191
- Author
Davis, Milburn.
- Title
Milburn Davis plays, 1969-1973.
- Access
There are no restrictions on access to the plays.
- Linking Entry
Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.
- Biography
Playwright, actor, freelance writer, newspaper reporter, and public relations director. Davis was educated at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute, majoring in journalism, newswriting, and public relations, 1959. He studied English and sociology at Morgan State College, 1967, and public relations at Pace College, 1969. Davis authored many articles wich appeared in Black Dialogue, the Liberator magazine and Muhammad Speaks. He was a newspaper reporter for the New York Post and Baltimore News American newspapers before becoming a public relations writer. He also worked as a copy editor for the Afro-American newspaper chain and as an index writer for Time Magazine.
Milburn Davis was a member of Ed Bullins' Black Playwrights Workshop in Harlem, the Negro Ensemble Company, and the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in New York City. He performed as an actor with the Black Magicians of the New Lafayette Theater, 1969-73, where he also played roles in two of his own plays. Since 1959 he has published numerous short stories in different popular magazines. He is the winner of second and third prizes in the U.S. Armed Forces short story contest, 1958.
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- Added Author
Davis, Milburn. Sometimes a switchblade helps.
Davis, Milburn. Old man on the welfare dole.
Davis, Milburn. $100,000 nigger.
Davis, Milburn. You can take the nigger out of the country, but...
Davis, Milburn. Love songs.
Davis, Milburn. Sporting times.
Davis, Milburn. Black rage in suburbia.
Negro Ensemble Company.
- Found In:
c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A157.
- Research Call Number
Sc MG 345