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I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

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Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

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It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

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Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

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Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

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Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.

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I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

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I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: May 10th, 1981

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