Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Speaks at CWRU Lecture Series

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Tue 11/1 @ 6PM

The success of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks brought a welcome and much-needed voice to an American theater still dominated by white male voices. The now-53-year-old author became the first African-American female to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama when she snagged it in 2002 for her play Topdog/Underdog. She had her first produced play in 1987 and won her first Obie two years later.

Not only has her stage output grown to nearly 20, she’s also written a novel and screenplays for Spike Lee’s Girl 6 and the Oprah Winfrey TV adaptation of the Zora Neale Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Parks will be at the Maltz Performing Arts Center as part of Case Western Reserve University’s Think forum lecture series. Shell address the topic “Between Performance and Conversation.” It’s free and open to the public, but you need to make a reservation here or by calling 216-368-6062.

case.edu/events/thinkforum

Cleveland, OH 44106

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