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LESLIE LEE |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Born in Bryn Mawr, PA, now lives in New York City. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Villanova University. Currently Assistant Pro-fessor in Theater at the College at Old Westbury, SUNY. He has published fiction, The Day After Tomorrow, a novella; film scripts, The First Breeze of Summer, for Theatre in America series; Almos' A Man, adaptation, for he American Short Story series; The Split Cherry Tree, ABC-TV, and Go Tell It On The Mountain, adaptation for PBS, among others. Recipient: Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Fellow, 1966-68; Shubert Foundation Playwriting Grant, 1971-72; Obie Award; Best Play Tony Nomina-tIOn; Outer Circle Critics Award, 1976; Mississip-pI ETV Award; Special Mention, Black Film-makers.
Address (in 1981): 708 Washington St., 2B, New York, NY 10014
Agent (in 1981): Ellen Neuwald, 905 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025 (212) 633-1582
Plays by Leslie Lee
As I Lay Dying, a Victim of Spring | ||
| 1st Produced: | Walnut St. Theater, Philadelphia, PA | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44754 | |||
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Between Now and Then | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573619113 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20440 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | middle class Black family living in the suburbs as father struggles to find a happy medium in his attitudes to bringing up his children | |||||
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Black Eagles | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1991 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20441 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | about America's first black fighter pilots with flashbacks to World War II | |||||
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Blues in a Broken Tongue | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62813 | |||
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Synopsis: | A black American family in the 1930s move to Russia to escape racism. Many years later one of the daughters finds a pile of Billie Holliday, Paul Robeson and Bessie Smith records. | |||||
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Book of Lambert, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44755 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | The Book of Lambert depicts the lives of six lost souls hiding from society in the subterranean depths of an abandoned NYC subway tunnel. Their leader is Lambert, an African American man who has been hurt-possibly beyond repair-by his former love, a beautiful Caucasian woman. A bright but disillusioned ex-college professor, Lambert begins writing a prophetic book on life. In an effort to guide and re-focus this wayward flock, Lambert unleashes his own identity issues while coming face to face with the demons of his past. | |||||
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Colored People's Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1982 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20442 | |||
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Genre: | History play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | a history of Black America from the eve of the Civil War to the Montgomery bus boycott a century later | |||||
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Cops & Robbers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 29 Jan 1971 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44751 | |||
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Notes: | Composer: J. Frederick Magee | |||||
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Elegy To A Down Queen | ||
| 1st Produced: | 11 Mar 1970 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20443 | |||
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Genre: | Drama & Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Composer: Dominic Garvey | |||||
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First Breeze Of Summer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theatre, New York | 10 Jun 1975 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20444 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | an oversensitive boy who is about to graduate from high school worships his grandmother, the resolution of his problems and his acceptance of his sexuality and blackness form the backbone of the play | |||||
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Golden Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1989 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20445 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Ground People | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20446 | |||
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Hannah Davis | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20447 | |||
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Killing Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Village Gate, NYC | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44756 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
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Legends | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading, Midtown International Theatre Festival, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #100959 | |||
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Genre: | 120 minutes | |||||
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Synopsis: | When is enough enough even for the dispossessed? A motley group of outcasts living in a flea bitten hotel on the Lower East Side find ways to set aside their differences and unite to force respect from their tormentors,the Hell's Angels, even though it means risking their own lives and the little they have left. | |||||
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Life, Love and Other Minor Matters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Village Gate, NYC | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44757 | |||
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Genre: | musical revue | |||||
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Martin | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theater | 19 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133601 | |||
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Genre: | musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Book By: Leslie Lee; Music & Lyrics By: Charles Strouse | |||||
Synopsis: | Martin recounts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s faltering journey from defiant teenager to leader of an improbable nonviolent bus boycott, which ultimately set the tone for the civil rights movement. In this new musical, Dr. King is stunned and disappointed that students from an urban high school, named after him, have little idea who he and his colleagues were in the civil rights movement. He takes them through his struggles with racism as a youth in Atlanta, his embrace of Mahatma Gandhi's peaceful means of protest, and the Montgomery bus boycott, where segregation on buses was declared illegal by the United States Supreme Court. | |||||
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Mina | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74081 | |||
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Synopsis: | In a fusion of music, poetry and art, an ensemble cast captivatingly depicts the early life of the revolutionary, yet surprisingly little known artist, Mina Loy. Visit Victorian England, Bavarian Munich, Bohemian Paris and Futurist Florence in a story of one woman's struggle to be herself in a world where women were subjects not artists. Leslie Lee, Obie-winning, Tony-nominated playwright, and author for television and film, has chosen to unearth an historical figure, the lesser-known yet pioneering poet and artist, Mina Loy (1882-1966). Mr. Lee's works have been praised as powerful, ground-breaking theater. His eloquent writing examines and embraces the life of this early feminist, whose talent, intellect and exceptional beauty made her one of the central figures of the literary and visual avant-garde in Europe and America. In this visionary play, Mr. Lee concentrates on Loy's early years in Europe during the height of experimental and Futurist thought in art. In a fusion of music, poetry and theatre, an ensemble cast will visit Victorian England, Bavarian Munich, Bohemian Paris, and Futurist Florence. At its core, Mina is the fascinating story of a deeply complicated woman, decades ahead of her time; a voice that saw '. . .art, love, sex, and childbirth from the perspective of a new woman.' (Becoming Modern, The Life of Mina Loy, Carolyn Burke) | |||||
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Night of the NoMoon, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44752 | |||
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Playing With Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | The New School for Drama Theater, 151 Bank Street, New York | 18 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139889 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - August Strindberg. Translated by Ulrika Brand; adapted by Leslie Lee | |||||
Synopsis: | August Strindberg's Chekhovian comedy, Playing With Fire (Leka med elden, 1893), in a translation by Ulrika Brand that has been newly adapted by Obie-winner Leslie Lee, Executive Director of Negro Ensemble Company, will be presented with an all-black cast as the inaugural production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre. The play, one of Strindberg's rare comedies, was written in 1893 after the playwright found himself involved in a love triangle within a love triangle within a love triangle. Leslie Lee has transformed its setting from a Swedish summer house in 1893 to a summer cottage of the black social elite in Oak Ridge, a neighborhood of Martha's Vineyard, in 1926. That is is around the time Oak Bluffs beach first became a mecca for the black upper crust from around the country. | |||||
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Rabbit Foot, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780573692277 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20448 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | about a troupe of ragtag black vaudevillians travelling through the rural south shortly after world War I and about a black sharecropper family, both groups are divided about moving north | |||||
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Sundown Names and Night-Gone Things | ||
| 1st Produced: | Castillo Theatre | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Best Black Plays" published by Northwestern University Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78284 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four men work in the front office of the insurance company the South Side Burial Society. Travis, married and approaching middle aged and desperately seeking sexual encounters. Cairo Biggs who longs to be a teacher. The older Arjay and the happy-go-lucky Boyd. They are all accepting sexual favours from their female clients. | |||||
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War Party, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44753 | |||
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Willie | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20449 | |||
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