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China Clark

CHINA CLARK   (1952 - )

Nationality:   African-American/Irish     Email:   Click here to contact    Website:   n/a

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aka China Clark Pendarvis. China Clark (Debra): Playwright, Director, Filmmaker, Installation Artist, Philosophy Professor, and Screenwriter, began her career as a television staff writer for The Bill Cosby Show, ÒCos.o Recognized as being one of the leading black authors in theatre today, China Clark has written over 30 plays, many produced in New York, San Francisco, Germany, and England: including Sugar Brown-Divine and May, which was produced at the Friends of Italian Opera Theater in Berlin, Germany, Bessie Smith Speaks, produced by Woody King Jr. and the New Federal Theater in New York, and The Hearts and Souls Bar, produced at Theater Zum Westlichen Stadthirschen in Berlin, Germany. A collection of her work is published as A Black Woman in Contemporary Drama, and she is featured in Black Voices, Edited by Woody King Jr., and published by Applause Drama Books of New York. Essence Magazine and other publications have published her poetry. A poetry album of her work is produced by Folkways Records. China is a former professor of screenwriting at City University, Parson's The New School of Social Research, and she was a guest lecturer on film at Potsdam University in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Clark has instructed at her own school for screenwriters, Home, where she has taught script writing to Oscar-winners Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Geena Davis, Charlie Kaufman, Ben Stiller, a Roberto Benigni, and thousands of Hollywood's finest writers. China has won many, many, critical accolades and awards as both a writer and a director: Hannah B. Del Vecchio Award (Scriptwriting), Creative Artist Award from New York Arts Council (Playwriting, In Sorrow's Room), The Goldberg Award (Life's Work), The Martin Award, (installation art), and The Puffin Award, Playwriting. China holds two Master's degrees, one in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Philosophy, and one in English Literature with a concentration in the Teaching of Writing. She is currently a PhD candidate, teaches philosophy at the College of New Rochelle in New York, and is the dramaturgy at Woody King's New Federal Theater in New York.

Plays by China Clark

CHINA CLARK

Bessie Smith Speaks

1st Produced:

Abrons Arts Center, NY, USA >>>

1994

Company:

Woody King's New Federal Theater

1st Published:

Black Voices/Applause Books/New York City, 1996

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Drama/music

Parts:

Male

-

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A one-woman show about the famous black blues singer Bessie Smith: her life, her music, and her struggle to be realized as a black woman in the racially oppressive American south. Family loyalty, love, bi-sexuality, the brutality of the music business for a black in the 1920Õs, and overcoming are some of the major issues. Bessie tackles these issues with the background of her genius blues.

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CHINA CLARK

Chinese Screen, The

1st Produced:

La MaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>>

27 Feb 1976

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:

-

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#27434

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Hearts and Souls Bar, The

1st Produced:

Theater zum westilichen Stadthirschen, Berlin, Germany

2000

Company:

Black and Blue Visions

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#56489

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Three men meet in a bar during a snowstorm in New York. One Irish, One Englishmen, and One African-American form an emotional bond, as they wait for the snow to subside. It is soon revealed that they are all waiting to contact their special women (the loves of their lives). Turns out, they are all waiting for the same woman.

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

In Sorrow's Room

1st Produced:

African Total Theatre, NYC

1975

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Era Pub Co, NY, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Domestic Drama Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Deals with the independence of a young beautiful black woman. Sorrow has left her domineering mother to find herself. She is pursued constantly by men who seem interested only in her body and not her art or ideas

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Madwoman's Room, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#7073

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Neffie

1st Produced:

Urban Arts Theatre, NYC

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Era Pub Co, NY, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Mythic Fantasy

Parts:

Male

7

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

reading Frank Silvera Writer's Workshop, Ny, 1975

Synopsis:

A tale of undying love. Music-dance-fantasy

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Perfection In Black

1st Produced:

Negro Ensemble Company, NY, USA >>>

1971

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Scrippte vol 1 no 7 May 1972,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#7075

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

concerns black woman's conflicts with black man/white woman

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Sabian, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

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:

-

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#7076

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Sugar Brown - Divine & May

1st Produced:

Berlin, Germany

1997

Company:

Friends of the Italian Opera

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#27438

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Genre:

Drama/poetry

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

Unseen male voice

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Sugar and May meet in a metaphorical Prison. Sugar is educated, beautiful, cultured, and wise; May, on the other hand, is street-wise, uncultured, and insecure about her looks. Nevertheless, the women find that they have a similar America experience.

Further Reference:

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CHINA CLARK

Why God Hates Rev Chandler

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#7077

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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CHINA CLARK

Willow Lottery, The

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

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:

-

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#7078

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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