Research Catalog

Title

Ruby Dee plays, 1976-1987.

Author

Dee, Ruby

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Details

Additional Authors

• Davis, Arthur P.
• Frank Silvera Writers Workshop

Found In

c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.

Subject

• Dee, Ruby
• 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, screenwriter and actress. Ruby Dee (Ruby Ann Wallace) was born in Cleveland, OH, 1924. She received theatrical experience with the American Negro Theater in Harlem, 1941-1944. She appeared in the stage and screen versions of "A raisin in the sun," 1959 and 1961, and co-starred with her husband Ossie Davis in numerous theater, film and TV productions. Ruby Dee is a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Award, New York Urban League, 1970; Obie Award for "Boesman and Lena," 1971; and Actors Equity Association Paul Robeson Citation, 1975. Ruby Dee was elected to Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1975.

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-A464

Author

Dee, Ruby.

Title

Ruby Dee plays, 1976-1987.

Description

2 items.

Summary

Collection contains photocopies of two unpublished play scripts. Titles include: "Twin-Bit Gardens," 1976, and "John Boscoe and the devil," 1987 (based on "How John Boscoe outsung the devil" by Arthur P. Davis).

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, screenwriter and actress. Ruby Dee (Ruby Ann Wallace) was born in Cleveland, OH, 1924. She received theatrical experience with the American Negro Theater in Harlem, 1941-1944. She appeared in the stage and screen versions of "A raisin in the sun," 1959 and 1961, and co-starred with her husband Ossie Davis in numerous theater, film and TV productions. Ruby Dee is a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Award, New York Urban League, 1970; Obie Award for "Boesman and Lena," 1971; and Actors Equity Association Paul Robeson Citation, 1975. Ruby Dee was elected to Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1975.

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Finding aid

Added Author

Dee, Ruby. Twin-Bit Gardens.

Dee, Ruby. John Boscoe and the devil.

Davis, Arthur P.

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