Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy ( * September 13, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) is an American author and playwright who three times with the Obie Award was awarded among others. They also won in 2003 for lifetime achievement with the Anisfield - Wolf Book Award.

Life

Adrienne Kennedy studied post-school education at the Ohio State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Education) from.

They started in the mid 1960s with her ​​literary work as a playwright and Funny House of a Negro published in 1964 her debut theater piece for which she received her first Obie Award. For the two pieces of June and Jean in Concert and Sleep Deprivation Chamber In 1996 she was honored with the Obie Award and again in 2008 also received another Obie Award for her life's work. With its non-traditional and unconventional style and their own experience of acting as an African American work they influenced the works of younger African-American authors such as Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan - Lori Parks.

In addition to her literary career, she also worked as a lecturer at Yale University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis worked. In addition, Adrienne Kennedy worked as a producer and produced by the television series WLRN Perspectives (2007) and the TV movie Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami ( 2008), most recently in 2011, the documentary Prohibition and the South Florida Connection.

Publications

Dramas

Other Publications

  • People who led to my plays, 1986
  • Adrienne Kennedy in one act, 1988
  • Deadly triplets, 1990
  • The Alexander Plays, 1992
  • The Adrienne Kennedy reader, 2001

Background literature

  • Philip C. Kolin: Understanding Adrienne Kennedy, 2004, ISBN 1570035792
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