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WILLIAM BRANCH (1927 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Bridget Aschenberg, ICM ? |
William Blackwell Branch (born September 11, 1927 New Haven, Connecticut) is an African American playwright, and editor. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1949, and from Columbia University with an M.F.A. in 1958. He studied at Yale University in 1965-66. He taught at Cornell University, and William Paterson College, 1994-96.
Plays by William Branch
Baccalaureate | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1975 ? | ||||
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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 | #4360 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Drama 3 act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM, 3 BF, 3 BB | |||||
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Synopsis: | Young black woman graduate student, rooming with her married sister's family, is forced to choose between comfortable middle class ambitions and an exciting, but perilous involvement with a young black activist. | |||||
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Experiment In Black | ||
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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 | #4361 | |||
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Fifty Steps Toward freedom | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 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 | #135610 | |||
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In Splendid Error | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York | Oct 1954 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Theater USA, ed. by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine, New York: Free Pr., 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4362 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Drama 3 acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5BM, 1BF, 1BG, 5WW | |||||
Notes: | subtitled: Frederick Douglass | |||||
Synopsis: | Frederick Douglass grapples with the practical, personal, and psychological problems of supporting his friend, John Brown, as both seek an effective way to fight slavery. | |||||
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Light In The Southern Sky | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1958 | ||||
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 | #4363 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Medal For Willie, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Club Baron, New York | Oct 1951 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Drama Anthology, ed. by Woodie King, Jr. and Ron Milner, New York: New Amer. Lib., 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4364 | |||
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Genre: | 7 Scenes, Prologue, and Epilogue. Protest Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 BM, 4 BF, 9 WM (or 8 WM and 1 WF) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Southern town gathers for official U.S. presentation of a medal to a mother of a dead soldier-hero, but the underlying hypocrisy leads to an event not scheduled on the program. | |||||
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To Follow The Phoenix | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Scene in Black Scenes, ed. by Alice Childress, New York: Doubleday, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4365 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Historical Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 8 BM, 6 BF, 4 WM (doubling), extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | Black college student finds inspiration and courage to participate in potentially dangerous racial demonstrations by recalling the life and example of the extraordinary Mary Church Terrell, a black elitist who fought against racial and sexual discrimination from post-reconstruction days through the sit-ins of the 1960s | |||||
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Wreath For Udomo, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Karamu Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio, 1959 | 1959 | ||||
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 | #4366 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | 3 act Morality Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 BM, 4 BF, 4 WM, 2 WF, 1 Asian M, extras | |||||
Notes: | Based upon the novel by Peter Abrahams | |||||
Synopsis: | African prime minister finds that defeating colonialism is the easiest part of acquiring independence; exercising power calls for a diabolical decision in a far more complicated world than he and his fellow revolutionaries ever dreamed of during their student days abroad | |||||
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