Community Resources

BIPOC Playwrights and Their Plays

Aziza Barnes – BLKS

Staceyann Chin – Hands Afire, Unspeakable Things, Border/Clash, MotherStruck!

Jordan E. Cooper – Ain’t No Mo

Harrison David Rivers – When Last We Flew, Sweet, And She Would Stand Like This, Where the Storms Are Born, A Crack in the Sky, Five Points, This Bitter Earth, To Let Go and Fall, Broadbend, Arkansas

Erika Dickerson-Despenza – cullud wattah, ocean’s lip/ heaven’s shore, took/ tied hung/split, shadow/land, [hieroglyph]

Jeremy O. Harris – Slave Play, “Daddy”, Black Exhibition, Xander Xyst, Dragon:1

Rodney Hicks – Just Press Save, Flame Broiled, Ms. Pearl’s Cabaret

Michael R. Jackson – A Strange Loop, White Girl in Danger, The Kids on the Lawn, Only Children

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – Neighbors, War, Appropriate, An Octoroon, Gloria, Everybody, Girls

C.A. Johnson – All the Natalie Portmans, Thirst, The Climb, An American Feast, I Know I Know I Know

Donnetta Lavinia Grays – Warriors Don’t Cry, Last Night and the Night Before, Laid to Rest, The Review of How to Eat Your Opposition, The New Normal, The Cowboy is Dying

Carmen LoBue – Will You… Hold My Hair Back

Patricia lone Lloyd – Eve’s Song, Black Tale, The Trains Is Bound for Glory, Dirty Little Black Girls., The Re-occuring Resurrection of Sweet Leticia Jesus Brown, Household Magic

Donja R. Love – one in two, Sugar in Our Wounds, Fireflies, In the Middle

Griffin Matthews – Witness Uganda, The Family Project

Tarell Alvin McCraney – Ms. Blakk for President, Head of Passes, Choir Boy, American Trade, Wig Out!, The Brothers/Sisters Trilogy: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet

Antoinette Nwandu – Pass Over, Breach

Robert O’Hara – Bootycandy, Mankind, Insurrection: Holding History, Zombie: The American, Barbecue, Antebellum, An American Ma(u)l

Azure D. Osborne-Lee – Mirrors, Crooked Parts, Glass, The Beasts of Warren, Appetite, The Crocus Eaters

Jackie Sibblies Drury – Fairview, Social Creatures

Korde Arrington Tuttle – graveyard shift, Tripych (Eyes of One on Another), clarity

LGBTQIA+ Playwrights and Their Plays

Moises Kaufman– The Laramie Project, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 33 Variations, One Arm

Paula Vogel– INDECENT, How I Learned to Drive, The Baltimore Waltz, A Civil War Christmas, Hot ‘N Throbbing, Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief, 3 Women, The Mineola Twins, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession

Terrence McNally– Bad Habits , The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, for Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Mother and Sons, Corpus Christi. Librettos for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime, The Full Monty, Catch Me if You Can

Tony Kushner– Angels in America, Caroline, or Change, Hydriotaphia, Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day

Tennessee Williams– A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Glass Menagerie, The Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly Last Summer

Lorraine Hansberry– A Raisin in the Sun, Les Blancs, The Drinkng Gourd, The Sign in Sidney Brunstein’s Window

Christopher Durang– Beyond Therapy, Titanic, Miss Witherspoon, Laughing Wild, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, The Actor’s Nightmare

Colman Domingo– Dot, A Boy and his Soul, Wild With Happy

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins – Neighbors, War, Appropriate, An Octoroon, Gloria, Everybody, Girls

Matthew Lopez– The Inheritance, The Whipping Man, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Zoey’s Perfect Wedding, Some Like It Hot

Federico Garcia Lorca– The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Yerma, The Public, Mariana Pineda, When Five Years Pass

Azure D. Osborne-Lee – Mirrors, Crooked Parts, Glass, The Beasts of Warren, Appetite, The Crocus Eaters

Harvey Fierstein– Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Follies, Kinky Boots, Safe Sex, Casa Valentina, A Catered Affair, Newsies, Legs Diamond