Research Catalog
Charles Fuller plays
- Title
- Charles Fuller plays, 1971-1974.
- Author
- Fuller, Charles.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Found In
- c2pc Frank Silvera Writers Workshop. Frank Silvera Writers Workshop records. (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A93.
- Description
- 2
- Summary
- Collection consists of two unpublished play scripts.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
- Subjects
- 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, TV scriptwriter, theater director, and journalist.
- Fuller is the recipient of several honors and awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982, for "A soldier's play," 1981; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1975; Obie Award, 1980, for "Zooman and the sign," 1980, which was also selected by the Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook Best Plays series as a "Best Play" of 1980-1981. "A soldier's play," besides the Pulitzer Prize, won additional awards like, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, as the best American Play, the Outer Critics' Circle Award, as the Best off-Broadway Play, the Theater Club Award as the Best Play.
- 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-A4
- Author
- Fuller, Charles.
- Title
- Charles Fuller plays, 1971-1974.
- 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, TV scriptwriter, theater director, and journalist. Charles Fuller was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1939. He was educated at Villanova University (1956-1958), and received his B.A. from LaSalle College, 1967. Fuller has edited several newspapers in Philadelphia, he was one of the founders of Kuntu, an organization of black writers and artists, and was the co-founder and co-director of the Afro-American Arts Theater in Philadelphia, 1967-1971. A number of his television scripts have been produced on local Philadelphia TV channels.Fuller is the recipient of several honors and awards: Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982, for "A soldier's play," 1981; Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1975; Obie Award, 1980, for "Zooman and the sign," 1980, which was also selected by the Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook Best Plays series as a "Best Play" of 1980-1981. "A soldier's play," besides the Pulitzer Prize, won additional awards like, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, as the best American Play, the Outer Critics' Circle Award, as the Best off-Broadway Play, the Theater Club Award as the Best Play.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Fuller, Charles. In my many names and days.Fuller, Charles. Candidate.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