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Lonnie
Carter, Playwright
A native of Chicago’s northwest section, Lonnie Carter has
been writing plays for 30 years. His writing often deals
with social commentary, crosses racial and ethnic
boundaries, and is acclaimed for its “hip-hop dialect and
rhythms, syncopated poetry and prose, humor, pathos…” His
major plays including The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy,
Gulliver, Lemuel and Concerto Chicago have been performed at
Victory Gardens, La Mama, E.T.C. in New York, the American
Place Theater and the Yale Repertory Theater. Since 1979,
Carter has taught playwriting at New York University. He
graduated from Marquette University and studied at the Yale
School of Drama. He has received several fellowships among
which the Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship and the National
Endowment for the Arts. Recently, the Children’s Theater
Company in Minneapolis commissioned Carter to write a new
work about Sudanese refugee boys, currently titled The Lost
Boys. |
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