Laurence Holder

Renaissance Women (eBook, ePUB)

Five Plays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is an honor and a pleasure to communicate directly with my growing audience. I have included in this first volume, of a number of volumes I plan to have published, five of the greatest renaissance women in the African Diaspora.

These women are different and yet each of them shares a trait which I so greatly admire -- creative determinism. They discovered a purpose within themselves and continued on their march to destiny, fame, sometimes riches, sometimes ignominy, always triumphant over the ills of a world, which is, in fact, still discovering itself; but which, in its blind fury, has ground civilizations, people and ideas into the dust.

The indestructible African Diasporan Woman I have chosen for this volume are Ethel Waters, Valaida Snow, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston, and Winifred Mandela.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759605190
• Artikelnr.: 59035170

Autorenporträt

Laurence Holder is a major African American playwright who has specialized in presenting tales and myths about some of the Diaspora's most famous and interesting figures compelling the attention of historians, educators, and theatre goers.

He has been nominated many times and won writing awards from AUDELCO, the audience development company, which has acknowledged excellence in the field of African Diasporan theatre for more than 30 years. His plays are regularly acknowledged for excellence by the numbers of nominations and awards they receive in all categories, including acting, directing, stage and set design, music, and producing. He has been awarded the Garland Anderson Award for the body of his work by The National Black Theatre Festival of the United States, and most recently he received the first OTTO Award for political writing, awarded by the internationally known Castillo Theatre.

A tenured faculty member of The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, he is the son of Goldie and Wilton Holder, the father of three children, and the devoted husband to Andrea.