25 Queer Playwrights of Color You Should Know
Written by Tiffany Wilkie
June 17, 2020
Performer Stuff celebrates queer men and women of color who have brought their stories to the forefront of American theatre. Pick up a script by any one of these playwrights to learn about and appreciate the struggles, triumphs, and culture of the LGBTQ+ person of color community.
1. Ianne Fields Stewart
Bio: “Ianne Fields Stewart (pronouns: she/her/they/them) is a black, queer, and transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. Their work and she are dedicated to interrupting the exclusivity of luxury by making things like entertainment, nourishment, and self care accessible to the most marginalized in their community. In a world that is constantly traumatizing Black bodies she believes that Black queer and trans people should have the space and time to center collective emotional, physical, and sensual pleasure. Ianne’s work is divided into three platforms: the platform they stand on as a performer; the platform they build amongst others as a cultural competency consultant; and the platform they build for others to stand on as a playwright, director, teaching artist, and choreographer.” – iannefieldsstewart.com
2. Michael R. Jackson
Bio: “Originally from the Austin, Texas, Michael R. Jackson is the 2006 Drama Desk Award winning composer lyricist of the musical Hello X with playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Peter Casagrande. His musical N*ggaPlz (commissioned by South Coast Rep) has been performed in 82 countries including Afghanistan where the all female cast was stoned to death on opening night. His plays (which have been described by the New York Times as “emotionally vital but intellectually dishonest”) have been performed at La Mama, Dixon Place, Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla, The Goodman, The Public, The Vineyard, MCC, and more. He has contributed music to numerous children’s programming including Sesame Street, Wonder Pets, and Sex and The City For Kids for which he was nominated for an Emmy. He has developed pilots for LOGO, AMC, USA, MTV, and most controversially, the hit reality series Real Housewives Go To War Torn Sudan for OWN. He’s currently at work on a Broadway bound 80s jukebox muzak-al tentatively titled Remember That? When he’s not writing shows, Michael is the front man for the critically acclaimed black art fag indie rock band Tyler Perry’s American Psycho. He is a proud alumnus of Oberlin College where he majored in Contemporary Gender Fucking, New York University where he studied playwriting with Eduardo Machado, and BMI, where he got his charm song on. He lives in a modest Williamsburg loft with his boyfriend and Tony Award winning set designer, LaMarr Thomas Pearson and their dog Brecht.” – thelivingmichaeljackson.com
3. Trey Anthony
Bio: “British-born Canadian playwright, actor, and producer, best known for her award-winning play and television series Da Kink in My Hair. As a producer, she worked for the Women’s Television Network and the Urban Women’s Comedy Festival. She founded Trey Anthony Studios, a television and theater production company dedicated to producing new works of theater.” – Wikipedia
4. James Baldwin
Bio: “Novelist and playwright, notably for the books ‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’ (semi-autobiographical, 1953), ‘Giovanni’s Room’ (1956), and ‘Another Country’ (1962). All are noted for inclusion of homosexuality. Critically praised writer, but he created controversy in the black community. Social, civil rights, and political activist.” – QueerBio.com
5. Nissy Aya
Bio: “Nissy Aya is a Black girl from the Bronx. She joined The Lark as the 2016-2017 Artistic Programming apprentice and now serves as the Artistic Coordinator. She is a writer, educator, and cultural worker who believes in the transformative nature of storytelling and sees theatre as a tool to create social change by empowering disenfranchised communities to unapologetically portray their whole selves on stage. She is a trained facilitator on topics surrounding the intersections of identity, power and privilege and how those intersections influence structures of oppression. As an artist, her work centers the voices of Black women, explores the lines between history and memory, details both the presence and absence of love and recounts extremely tall tales.” – TheLark.com
6. Owen Dodson
Bio: “Poet, novelist, and playwright, notable for his topics in religion and sexuality. Part of the Harlem Renaissance group of artists and poets. Notable poetry works include ‘Powerful Long Ladder’ (1944) and ‘The Harlem Book of the Dead’ (1978) and the poem ‘Black Mother Praying’, and play ‘Bayou Legend’ (1948). Partner was critic Hilton Als.” – QueerBio.com
7. Angelina Weld Grimke
Bio: “Poet, playwright, prose writer. Wrote about racial protests and politics of America in the 1920s and 1930s. Contributor to the magazine ‘The Crisis’, a publication of the NAACP at the time. Notable plays include ‘Rachel’ (1920), a play about racial division and violence. Member of the Harlem Renaissance group of artists and writers.” – QueerBio.com
8. Tracey Scott Wilson
Bio: “Tracey Scott Wilson’s current work includes The Story, which was first produced at The Joseph Papp Public Theater/NYSF, and transferred to the Long Wharf Theatre. The Story has since been produced at thirty theatres nationwide. Additional productions include Order My Steps for Cornerstone Theater’s Black Faith/AIDS project in Los Angeles; and Exhibit #9, produced in New York City by New Perspectives Theatre and Theatre Outrageous; Leader of the People produced at New Georges Theatre; two ten-minute plays produced at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis; and a ten-minute play produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Wilson has had readings at the New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges Theatre, The Joseph Papp Public Theater and Soho Theatre Writers Centre in London. She earned two Van Lier Fellowships from the New York Theatre Workshop, a residency at Sundance Ucross, and is the winner of the 2001 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the 2003 AT&T Onstage Award, the 2004 Whiting Award and as well as the 2004 Kesserling Prize. Ms. Wilson holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from Temple University.” – Playscripts.com
9. Tarell Alvin McCraney
Bio: “An American playwright and actor. Since July 1, 2017, McCraney has been the chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. He is also a member of Teo Castellanos/D Projects Theater Company in Miami and in 2008 became RSC/Warwick International Playwright in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In April 2010, McCraney became the 43rd member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble. He co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on his own play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for the film High Flying Bird, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh and released by Netflix on February 8, 2019.”
– Wikipedia
10. Lorraine Hansberry
Bio: “A playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. The title of the play was taken from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award — making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry’s family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dealt with intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggle for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry’s writings also discussed her lesbianism and the oppression of homosexuality. She died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34. Hansberry inspired the song by Nina Simone entitled ‘To Be Young, Gifted and Black’.”
– Wikipedia
11. Robert O’Hara
Bio: “Robert O’Hara received a 2006 Obie Award for his Direction of the World Premiere production of In the Continuum. He wrote and directed Insurrection: Holding History at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater. The piece received the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play and was subsequently published by both Theater Communications Group and Dramatist Play Service. It has been produced around the country including at Mark Taper Forum and American Conservatory Theater. His new play, Antebellum, was workshopped at the O’Neill Theater Conference; American Ma(u)l was produced by ACT/Magic Theater and The Culture Project; The Spot, produced at Mark Taper Forum and NYSF; Down Low, produced by Mixed Blood Theater; and B.Candy, produced by Partial Comfort Productions. Current and recent writing projects are a rewrite (uncredited) for The Wiz, directed by Des McAnuff; Raw Pearl, Broadway bio-musical of Pearl Bailey, to be produced by Bill and Camille Cosby; a New Play Commission from LaJolla Playhouse; Good Breeding, (after The Oresteia), currently in production at UCSD; as well as My Place in the Horror, to be produced by Duly Noted Inc., as his feature film directing debut. He has written films for Martin Scorsese/Universal Pictures (Live, a biopic of Richard Pryor); Spike Lee/HBO (Micheaux, biopic of Oscar Micheaux); Avnet/Kerner/ABC (Parting the Waters); Sony Pictures (The Journey is the Destination); New Line/Fine Line Cinema (Boorda); and Artisan Entertainment (White Folks). His plays have been produced around the world and he has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, NEA/TCG Fellowship, a Van Lier Fellow at New Dramatists, the first Mark Taper Forum’s Sherwood Award, and the Tanne Award for Exceptional Body of Work. He is currently directing the World Tour of the Off-Broadway hit play, In the Continuum. He has been an artist in residence at the American Conservatory Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Theater Emory, as well as a visiting Professor at DePaul University School of the Arts. His work has been developed at Seattle Rep., Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, NYSF, ACT, and CTG. He has been commissioned by Mark Taper Forum, National Endowment of the Arts, McCarter Theatre, Theatres de Nimes, Le Theatre l’Odeon, Theaterworks/USA, and Theater Emory.”
– Playscripts.com
12. Tanya Barfield
Bio: “Tanya Barfield’s plays include: Of Equal Measure (Center Theatre Group), Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory; Seattle Repertory, Berkeley Repertory and additional theaters), Dent, The Quick, The Houdini Act and 121 Degrees WEST. She wrote the book for the Theatreworks/USA children’s musical: Civil War: The First Black Regiment. Ms. Barfield was a recipient of the 2003 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, 2005 Honorable Mention for the Kesselring Prize for Drama, a 2006 Lark Play Development/NYSCA grant and she has been twice been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Primary Stages and Geva Theatre Center. She is a member of New Dramatists and serves on the membership committee at The Dramatist Guild.”
– Playscripts.com
13. Darryl Pinckney
Bio: “An American novelist, playwright, and essayist. He grew up in a middle class African-American family in the midwest and was educated at Columbia University. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, Slate, and The Nation. Pinckney is the author of High Cotton, a semi-autobiographical novel about “growing up black and bourgeois” in 1960s America which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 1992. Additionally, he won the Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994. Pinckney has also expressed his admiration for the long-running CBS soap opera, As the World Turns. His partner is English poet, James Fenton; the couple has been together since 1989. Pinckney lives in New York City and Oxfordshire, England.” – aalbc.com
14. D’bi Young
Bio: “Debbie Young (d’bi.young anitafrika), dub poet, playwright, actor (born 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica). A Dora Award–winning actress and playwright, d’bi.young anitafrika is best known for her trilogy of plays, the sankofa trilogy: bloodclaat: one oomaan story, benu,and word!sound!powah!, and as the founder of Watah Theatre Institute.” – dbiyounganitafrika.com
15. George C. Wolfe
Bio: “An American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and another Tony Award in 1996 for his direction of the musical Bring in ‘da Noise/Bring in ‘da Funk. He served as Artistic Director of The Public Theatre from 1993 until 2004.” – Wikipedia
16. Jeremy O. Harris
Bio: “Full-length plays include: Slave Play (Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, NYT Critics Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences), “DADDY” (Vineyard Theatre/The New Group, Almeida Theatre), Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1, and WATER SPORTS; or insignificant white boys (published by 53rd State Press). His work has been presented or developed by Pieterspace, JACK, Ars Nova, The New Group, NYTW, Performance Space New York and Playwrights Horizons. In 2018, Jeremy co-wrote A24’s upcoming film Zola with director Janicza Bravo. He is the 11th recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Orchard Project Greenhouse artist, a resident playwright with Colt Coeur, and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale MFA Playwrighting Program. Jeremy is currently developing a pilot with A24 for HBO.” – jeremyoharris.me
17. Aziza Barnes
Bio: “Aziza Barnes is an American poet. They are the author of the chapbook me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun (2013), which won an Exploding Pinecone Prize from Button Poetry. Their full-length collection, i be but i ain’t (2016), won a Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books. They are the cofounder of the Poetry Gods podcast and the co-founder of The Conversation Literary Festival. Barnes wrote the play BLKS that played at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Their upcoming collection, The Blind Pig will be released by Not A Cult media.” – Wikipedia
18. Korde Arrington Tuttle
Bio: “korde arrington tuttle is a multi-disciplinary artist from Charlotte, NC. He is currently writing for Them: Covenant (Amazon) and recently wrapped writing for Mix Tape (Netflix). His plays have been developed and seen at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, The 24-Hour Plays: Nationals, the Obie Award-winning Harlem 9’s 48 Hours… in Harlem at The National Black Theatre, HomeBase Theatre Collective, The Movement Theater Company, The New School’s 2015 AfroFuturism Conference, and The Tenth Magazine, in collaboration with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. tuttle is a recipient of the Steinberg Playwriting Fellowship, and was selected as a finalist for both the 2017 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Contest and City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest. In 2016, his play, clarity, won the 41st Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, and was published in their successive anthology. tuttle is a current playwright-in-residence at Lincoln Center Theater and is a Middle Voice Theatre Company member at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater. He received his MFA in Playwriting at The New School.”
– goodmantheatre.org
19. Keelay Gipson
Bio: “Keelay Gipson is a multi-disciplinary artist including work as an activist, teaching artist, and award-winning playwright. He is the recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship (2016-2018) at New Dramatists and recently finished work as a Public Artist in Residence for the City of New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Administration of Children’s Services working with LGBTQ foster youth. His work has been seen/developed at the Wild Project, Poetic Theater Productions, HERE Arts Center, The Theater at Alvin Ailey, Pace University, Planet Connections Theater Festival, The University of Houston, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The National Black Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theater, Amoralists Theater Company, Classical Theater of Harlem, New York Theatre Workshop and Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is a member of P73’s Interstate 73 Writer’s Group. His play UNTITLED RADIO PLAY was recently published in the anthology The Best American Short Plays 2015-2016, by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books | Hal-Leonard Books.”
– dgf.org
20. Jonathan Norton
Bio: “Jonathan’s work has been produced or developed by Dallas Theater Center, PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre Company, Pyramid Theatre Company, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Castillo Theatre, Soul Rep Theater Company, African American Repertory Theater, Kitchen Dog Theater, Undermain Theatre, Theatre Three, and South Dallas Cultural Center. His play Mississippi Goddamn was a Finalist for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and won the 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award given by the American Theatre Critics Association. Other awards include: Artistic Innovations Grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance, South Dallas Cultural Center Diaspora Performing Arts Commission, the TACA Donna Wilhelm Family New Works Fund, TACA Bowdon Family Foundation Artists Residency Fund, and the Jubilee Theatre’s 2019 Eastman Visionary Award. He is currently Playwright in Residence at Dallas Theater Center.” – howlround.com
21. Marcus Gardley
Bio: “Marcus Gardley is a multiple award-winning poet-playwright who recently won the prestigious 2008 Helen Merrill Award and a Kesselring honor. His most recent play And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi was produced at the Cutting Ball Theater and received both critical acclaim and two sold-out extensions. His Bay Area plays This World in a Woman’s Hands (October 2009) and Love is a Dream House in Lorin (March 2007) have been hailed as the best in Bay Area theater. The latter was nominated for the National Critics Steinberg New Play Award. He has had six plays produced including: dance of the holy ghost at Yale Repertory Theatre (now under a commercial Broadway option), (L)imitations of Life at the Empty Space, and like sun fallin’ in the mouth at the National Black Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Award, the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship, and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild and the Lark Play Development Center. Mr. Gardley, a native of West Oakland, was recently chosen as one of 50 writers to watch by the Dramatists Magazine. His play On the Levee recently premiered at Lincoln Center and his other new work, Every Tongue Confess, will open Arena Stage’s new theater, directed by Kenny Leon. Mr. Gardley teaches Playwriting and African-American studies at UMass.” – Playscripts.com
22. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Bio: “Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ plays include Neighbors (The Public Theater), Appropriate (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Signature Theatre in New York, Spring 2014), An Octoroon (Soho Rep, Spring 2014), and War. He is currently a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellow at The Juilliard School. Additionally, his work has been or will be seen at the Vineyard Theatre, The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles, Company One in Boston, and the HighTide Festival in the United Kingdom. He has taught at New York University and Queens University of Charlotte, and his honors include a Paula Vogel Award, a Helen Merrill Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. He holds an M.A. in Performance Studies.”
– Playscripts.com
23. Jordan E. Cooper
Bio: “Jordan E. Cooper is an award-winning playwright who lives in Brooklyn and is currently obtaining his BFA degree at The New School For Drama. His last play Black Boy Fly was voted ‘Best New Play’ by BroadwayWorld.Com. He can be seen starring in the critically acclaimed feature film WOLF, which is now available on Amazon and iTunes. His musical Alice Wonder premiered in concert previously this year at 54 Below.” – BroadwayWorld.com
24. Donja R. Love
Bio: “Donja R. Love is an Afro-Queer playwright, poet, and filmmaker from Philadelphia. He writes specifically about Black and Queer folx, for Black and Queer folx. He’s the recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Award.”
– juilliard.edu
25. Colman Domingo
Bio: “An Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Class Member and a Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow, Colman Domingo is an Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and NAACP Award nominated, OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award winning actor, playwright and director. Colman recently filmed Barry Jenkins sprawling James Baldwin drama If Beale Street Could Talk from Pastel/Plan B/Annapurna Pictures in New York. Domingo stars on AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead as Victor Strand. He has recently guest starred on Bojack Horseman (Netflix), Timeless (NBC), American Dad (FOX) and Miles From Tomorrowland/ Mission Force One (Disney Jr). Colman recurred on The Knick (Cinemax), guest starred on Horace and Pete (Hulu) and Lucifer (FOX). A slate of features will see him starring in Assassination Nation directed by Sam Levinson, which is headed to The Sundance Film Festival 2018, First Match directed by Olivia Newman for Netflix, which is headed to SXSW 2018 Film festival, and the upcoming Nothingman directed by Eli Kooris and Joshua Shaffer. Domingo is slated to direct his first feature film, City On Fire written by Corey Miller, produced by Jason Berman and Alex Ott for Mandalay Pictures. Colman is a recent recipient of the Sundance Feature Film Program Grant. Mr. Domingo, his creative partner Alisa Tager and AMC Networks are currently developing an original drama series for television, titled In the middle of the Street, which he will write and Executive Produce.
Colman co-starred in many films such as the Academy Award® nominated Paramount film Selma as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, All is Bright directed by Phil Morrison, Newlyweeds directed by Shaka King, Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg, three films directed by Spike Lee, including Miracle At St. Ana, Red Hook Summer and Passing Strange, Freedomland directed by Joe Roth, True Crime directed by Clint Eastwood, and The Birth of a Nation.
Domingo starred in The London Evening Standard Award winning The Scottsboro Boys at the Young Vic in London a role which he originated on and Off Broadway and reprised on the West End.
Domingo followed in the footsteps of Zakes Mokae, James Earl Jones and Danny Glover and starred as Zachariah in the New York revival of Blood Knot written and directed by Athol Fugard as the inaugural production of the Signature Theater Center Off Broadway. Colman is well known for his star turns as Mr. Franklin and a German performance artist, Mr. Venus of Berlin, in the Tony and Drama Desk Award winning groundbreaking musical Passing Strange directed by Annie Dorsen on Broadway and documented on film by Spike Lee. Mr. Domingo has starred in the first ever screen adaptation of a Ralph Ellison story for PBS, King of the Bingo Game.
Colman made his British and Australian theatrical debuts with his self penned solo play A Boy and His Soul at the Tricycle Theater and Brisbane Powerhouse Theaters, the production which originated at the New York City’s stalwart the Vineyard Theatre. He starred in his play Wild with Happy that had its debut at the Public Theater. His fourth play Dot premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville and premiered Off Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre directed by the legendary Tony award winner Susan Stroman. Dot is enjoying regional productions around the country and is published by Samuel French.
Domingo and nationally acclaimed theatre-maker Patricia McGregor co-authored the critically acclaimed and sold out production of Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole musical that had its world premiere at People’s Light Theatre in October 2017, starring Dulé Hill. Colman also collaborated with Des McAnuff and Robert Cary on SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical which enjoyed its world premiere at LaJolla Playhouse, starring Tony- award winner LaChanze, Ariana DeBose and Storm Lever, and will transfer to Broadway on March 28 before opening on April 23, 2018 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre.
Colman’s most recent play, The Brother(s), will receive its world premiere at the Z Space in San Francisco, in November 2018.
As a 20-year veteran theatre director, Domingo recently helmed the critically acclaimed Huntington Theatre’s world premiere of A Guide For The Homesick by Ken Urban in fall of 2017. Colman also staged Claire Kiechel’s Pilgrims for the Lark. His NAACP award nominated (Best Direction) and StageSceneLA celebrated (Outstanding Comedy Direction and Outstanding Production of a play) production of Barbecue closed to sold out houses at the Geffen Playhouse. Colman helmed the Off-Broadway Alliance Best Family Musical Award winning production of A Band of Angels and staged August Wilson’s Seven Guitars for Actors Theater of Louisville. He also helmed the Off-Broadway productions of Exit Cuckoo for The Working Theater and Single Black Female for the New Professional Theater. He has directed for Berkeley Rep as well as Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Colman has received residencies and/or commissions from The Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, People’s Light & Theatre Company, New York Theater Workshop, Scott Rudin Productions, Jeffrey Sellar, The Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Cash Fund, New Professional Theater and the March of Dimes.
Colman is on the board of directors of the Vineyard Theatre, the preeminent home for new plays and musicals. Mr. Domingo is on faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has taught, guest lectured and mentored at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin, the Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison O.M.A.I., The New York Writers Institute as the Burian Lecture Fellow, University of Minnesota, Temple University, The Art Institute of San Francisco and Community College of Philadelphia.” – BroadwayWorld.com
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