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Woodie King plays

Title: Woodie King plays, [1970?]-1973.
Author: King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-
Supplementary Content: 3Finding aid

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Negro Ensemble Company

Found In

c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A157.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

Genre/Form

Scripts.
Plays.

Access (note)

There are no restrictions on access to the plays.

Source (note)

Negro Ensemble Company

Biography (note)

Playwright, TV scriptwriter, screenwriter, actor, director, producer and short-story writer. Woodie King, Jr., has been called the renaissance man of black theater, comments Stephen M. Vallillo in the "Dictionary of literary biography." Vallillo goes on and states that while King has adapted plays and written short stories, "his real importance to black literature is his support for black theater. Through his essays and his productions, he has tried to bring about a vital theater for black audiences." King was born in Mobile, AL, 1937. He attended Will-O-Way School of Theatre, 1958-1962; Wayne State University, 1961; and Detroit School of Arts and Crafts.
Woodie King was the founder and artistic director of New Federal Theatre, New York City, in 1970; co-founder and manager of Concept East Theatre, Detroit, MI, 1960-63; co-founder of the National Black Touring Circuit, 1980; president of Woodie King Associates. He was an actor in the touring production of "Study in color" at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, 1964. He also directed five plays at American Place Theatre, 1965. King was associate producer at Lincoln Center for several plays; executive producer of the Broadway musical "Reggae," 1980; producer of films, including "Right on!" 1970, and of short films with Mobilization for Youth; producer and director of "The long night," 1975; director of plays, including "Splendid mummer," 1988 and "Checkmate," 1989; producer of record albums "New black poets in America" and "Nation time" for Motown, 1972; arts and humanities consultant to Rockefeller Foundation, 1968-1970. King's awards include the John Hay Whitney fellowship, American Place Theatre, 1965-1966; Venice Festival and Oberhausen Award, 1968, for "The game"; International Film Critics Award, 1970, for "Right on!"; A. Phillip Randolph Award, New York Film Festival, 1971, for "Epitaph."

Linking Entry (note)

Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

Sc MG 345

OCLC

NYPW99-A11

Author

King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-

Title

Woodie King plays, [1970?]-1973.

Description

4 items.

Access

There are no restrictions on access to the plays.

Summary

Collection includes photocopies of two unpublished TV scripts. Titles are: "The Diana Sands story," [1970?]; three versions of "Harlem transfer," 1973 (only the version with 110 pages is dated; two other versions have, respectively, 26 and 42 pages).

Linking Entry

Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.

Biography

Playwright, TV scriptwriter, screenwriter, actor, director, producer and short-story writer. Woodie King, Jr., has been called the renaissance man of black theater, comments Stephen M. Vallillo in the "Dictionary of literary biography." Vallillo goes on and states that while King has adapted plays and written short stories, "his real importance to black literature is his support for black theater. Through his essays and his productions, he has tried to bring about a vital theater for black audiences." King was born in Mobile, AL, 1937. He attended Will-O-Way School of Theatre, 1958-1962; Wayne State University, 1961; and Detroit School of Arts and Crafts.

Woodie King was the founder and artistic director of New Federal Theatre, New York City, in 1970; co-founder and manager of Concept East Theatre, Detroit, MI, 1960-63; co-founder of the National Black Touring Circuit, 1980; president of Woodie King Associates. He was an actor in the touring production of "Study in color" at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, 1964. He also directed five plays at American Place Theatre, 1965. King was associate producer at Lincoln Center for several plays; executive producer of the Broadway musical "Reggae," 1980; producer of films, including "Right on!" 1970, and of short films with Mobilization for Youth; producer and director of "The long night," 1975; director of plays, including "Splendid mummer," 1988 and "Checkmate," 1989; producer of record albums "New black poets in America" and "Nation time" for Motown, 1972; arts and humanities consultant to Rockefeller Foundation, 1968-1970. King's awards include the John Hay Whitney fellowship, American Place Theatre, 1965-1966; Venice Festival and Oberhausen Award, 1968, for "The game"; International Film Critics Award, 1970, for "Right on!"; A. Phillip Randolph Award, New York Film Festival, 1971, for "Epitaph."

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http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20880

Added Author

King, Woodie, Jr., 1937- Diana Sands story.

King, Woodie, Jr., 1937- Harlem transfer.

Negro Ensemble Company.

Found In:

c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A157.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 345

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