Antoinette Nwandu
Antoinette Nwandu is an African-American playwright based in New York.
Background
She studied at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, and was the 2015–2016 Naked Angels Issues Playlab Resident at The New School for Performing Arts.[1] Nwandu was also a 2013–2014 Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Fellow. She frequently performs with the spoken-word ensemble Sister Scribes.[2]
Nwandu has worked with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project,[3] Page73,[4] Ars Nova,[5] The Flea,[6] Naked Angels, Fire This Time,[7] The Movement Theater Company,[8] WordBRIDGE, and Dreamscape Theatre.[9] She has received the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award[10] for Flat Sam in 2009 and the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Prize.[11] She has also been a Playwrights of New York Fellowship finalist, a Page73 Fellowship finalist, an NBT (National Black Theatre) I Am Soul Fellowship finalist, and a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist.[12] In 2015, Nwandu was a finalist for the Ruby Prize for her play PASS OVER.[13]
Nwandu's play PASS OVER was included on the 2016 Kilroys' List,[14] and premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in May 2017.[15] A further production will premiere at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2018.[16]
Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate will be staged at Victory Gardens Theater in 2018 by director Lisa Portes.[17]
Notable works
- FLAT SAM (2013)
- Vanna White Must Die (2012)
- Black Boy & the War (2011)
- 4 Sustenance (2012)
- Pass Over (2017)
- BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate (2018)
References
- ^ "Bio". antoinettenwandu.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ "Antoinette Nwandu". doollee.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ "Mentor Project", Cherry Lane Theatre.
- ^ "Page 73 playwrights in 2016-17 seasons, around the country!", Page73.
- ^ "Ars Nova's Play Group: Antoinette Nwandu", YouTube.
- ^ "SERIALS @ The Flea".
- ^ The Fire This Time Festival.
- ^ The Movement Theatre Company at The Common Good.
- ^ The Dreamscape Theatre.
- ^ "The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award", The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
- ^ "NEC’s First Douglas Turner Ward Emerging Writers Award at Tisch NYU", NECArtz.
- ^ "Victory Gardens Completes Casting for 2016 IGNITION Festival of New Plays", Broadway World, August 5, 2016.
- ^ "Announcing the 2015 Ruby Prize Winner Winner and Finalists", Southern Rep Theatre.
- ^ Editors, American Theatre (June 21, 2016). "The Kilroys List 32 Unproduced Works by Women and Trans Playwrights". americantheatre.org. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
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has generic name (help) - ^ "Antoinette Nwandu". indietheaternow.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
- ^ "Chicago actors in LCT3's 'Pass Over'". Chicago Tribune. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ Jones, Chris (March 7, 2017). "Victory Gardens kicks off 2017-18 season with 'Fun Home'". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.