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Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright, To
Speak at Pomona College
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Acclaimed playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, will speak at Pomona
College on March 23, at 8 p.m., in the Bridges Hall of Music
(Little Bridges), 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont. Parks won
the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog,
which tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers
whose names, given to them as a joke, foretell a lifetime of
sibling rivalry and resentment. A sharp critique of the way
people are defined by history, the play was performed on
Broadway at the Ambassador Theater.
In 2003, Parks published her first novel, Getting
Mother’s Body, which reviewers compared to the work of
Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston. She also wrote the
screenplay for Spike Lee's Girl 6 and is currently
working on a screenplay adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel
Paradise, to be produced by Oprah Winfrey’s film
company, and a stage musical, Hoopz, about the Harlem
Globetrotters, for Disney.
A 2002 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant,
Parks has received grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation,
the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York
Foundation for the Arts, among other awards. In 2000, the
Los Angeles Times named her in its “Faces to Watch”
column, and in 1989, The New York Times named her
"the year's most promising new playwright." She is currently
a faculty member in the California Institute of the Arts
school of theater and previously served as an associate
artist at the Yale School of Drama.
There is no charge to attend the talk by Parks, which is
sponsored by the Associated Students of Pomona College. For
more information, call (909) 621-8166.
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the Web at
www.pomona.edu.
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