Author : Robert Connerly
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781414000763
Curly, Jake An' Me by Robert Connerly Pdf
Gibson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Washington, D.C. and Trenton, New Jersey. An avid traveler, it is the world from which she draws her fodder, having traveled extensively in Africa, Europe and Mexico. She, holds a M.F.A in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University and a B.A. in Drama, Religion and English from Keuka College. To date she has written over thirty plays. Widely produced, her plays have been presented throughout the United States, Europe and Africa. Gibson has numerous poems and short stories to her credit. She has been the recipient of many honors including: the Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts Seventh Annual "Walk of Fame" where her signature and hand print is imprinted in their Sidewalk of Fame; a Shubert Fellowship; a playwriting grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; two prestigious Audelco Awards; two PSC-CUNY Research Award grants and six playwriting commissions. In addition to her writing Ms. Gibson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She has taught eleven years at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Black Theatre graduate course at the Levin Theatre - Douglass College campus, Rutgers University. She has also been an Artist In Residence at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a Proclamation from the city of Trenton, New Jersey and a Key To The City from Indianapolis, Indiana. Other published works include: Long Time Since Yesterday, Samuel French publisher, which also appears in the anthology Black Thunder; Brown Silk and Magenta Sunsets in the anthology 9 Plays By Black Women, New American Library publisher, and "Konvergence" appearing in the New Plays For The Black Theatre anthology, Third World Press. Excerpts from My Mark, My Name appears in the Applause Theatre Books anthology Voices of Color. Her poetry appears in the Long Journey Home anthology, Meta Press and Erotique Noir - Black Erotica anthology, Doubleday publisher.
