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MAY MILLER (1899 - 1995) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
aka May Miller Sullivan
Plays by May Miller
Bog Guide, 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 | #38802 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | Awarded third prize in the Opportunity Literary Contest magazine, May 1925 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Christophe's Daughters | ||
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| 1st Published: | Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38810 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BF, 2 BG, 3 M | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | It is the fatal day of a black king's reign and the two princesses, alone in the deserted throne room, face the suicide of their father and the tragedy of revolution. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cuss'd Thing, 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 | #38811 | |||
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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Notes: | Received honorable mention in the second Opportunity Literary Contest magazine, May 1926 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Freedom's Children On The March | ||
| 1st Produced: | Commencement, Frederick Douglass High School, Baltimore, Md | 1943 | ||||
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 | #38812 | |||
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Genre: | Dramatic Folk Ballad | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Graven Images | ||
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| 1st Published: | Black Theater USA, ed. by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine, New York: Free Pr, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38813 | |||
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Genre: | Children's Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 BM, 1 BF, 1 BC, 2 WM, 1 WF, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The introduction of prejudice (in biblical times) when Miriam spoke against Moses on account of the Ethiopian woman he had married and the fancied reaction of their youngest son | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harriet Tubman | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washihgton, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38814 | |||
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: | Historical Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, 3 BF, 2 WM, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | About the extraordinary feats of this lone black woman who, on numerous trips, led groups of slaves through the Underground Railway to freedom | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nails And Thorns | ||
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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 | #38815 | |||
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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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Awarded third prize in Southern University Contest, 1933 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Riding The Goat | ||
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| 1st Published: | Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1930 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38816 | |||
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: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, 2 BF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Problem a young black physician has reconciling his ideas with the mores of the community in which he practices and how the girl he loves solves the problem | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Samory | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washihgton, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38817 | |||
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: | Historical Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM, 3 WM, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of a fabled leader of the African Sudan and his strategy that outwitted a French scheme to forestall the capture of a native town | |||||
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Scratches | ||
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| 1st Published: | Carolina Magazine, vol. 59, no. 7, N.C, Apr. 1929 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38818 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM, 2 BF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A pool game determines the future life plans of two men and one woman-the aim at one thing that hits two | |||||
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Sojourner's Truth | ||
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| 1st Published: | Negro History in Thirteen Plays, ed. by Willis Richardson and May Miller, Washihgton, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1935 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #38819 | |||
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: | Historical Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 BF, 2 WM, 4 (or more) WB | |||||
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Synopsis: | One of the many occasions on which Sojourner Truth's preaching was effective, changing the minds of a group of white boys bent on destruction | |||||
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Stragglers In The Dust | ||
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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 | #38820 | |||
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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Within The Shadow | ||
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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 | #38821 | |||
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: | n/a | |||||
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Notes: | Awarded first prize. Howard University Drama Award 1920 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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