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Playwrights of Color

Because of limitations to how many authors can be specified in a single search, playwrights here are grouped by:

  • the top contemporary Black playwrights (those of the 21st-Century by whom we have the most plays so far)
  • 20th-Century Black playwrights (at least mostly active then)
  • emerging Black playwrights (whose work we only so far have work in anthologies, if at all)

The number of results shown for each category should grow automatically over time.

top contemporary Black playwrights

The Black playwrights listed below have published mostly in the 21st-Century and have the most plays in our holdings so far.

With the searches linked here, you can see all the plays by the below listed playwrights

These 21st-Century Black playwrights include:

20th-Century Black playwrights

These Black playwrights listed below were at least mostly active in the 20th-Century.

With the searches linked here, you can see all the plays by the below listed playwrights

These 20th-Century Black playwrights include:

 

Subjects: Theatre & Dance