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Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks is a leading American playwright. Her numerous plays include Father Comes Home From the Wars (2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Book of Grace, Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (1996 OBIE Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 OBIE Award for Best New American Play) and The America Play. Her work on The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess earned the production a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 2012. In 2007 her 365 Plays/365 Days was produced in more than seven hundred theatres worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theatre history.

Named one of TIME magazine’s '100 Innovators for the Next New Wave', in 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog. She was the 2018 recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.

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100 Plays for the First Hundred Days

100 Plays for the First Hundred Days

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A unique and personal response to the extraordinary events of the first hundred days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump - a play diary for each day of the presidency, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

365 Days/365 Plays

365 Days/365 Plays

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A unique, year-long play cycle from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Topdog/Underdog. This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day.

The America Play and other works

The America Play and other works

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A volume of work by the innovative African-American playwright, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog.

The Book of Grace

The Book of Grace

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks' fierce and intimate three-person drama, a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog.

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.

The Red Letter Plays

The Red Letter Plays (US edition)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

Two haunting riffs on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, by a leading American playwright.

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Topdog/Underdog

Topdog/Underdog

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Venus

Venus

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.

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White Noise

White Noise

By Suzan-Lori Parks

An unflinching look at race in the 21st century from both a black and white perspective, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.