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- Glenda_Dickerson abstract "Glenda Dickerson (February 9, 1945 – January 12, 2012) was an iconic director, folklorist, adaptor, writer, choreographer, actor, black theatre organizer, and educator. She is known throughout the American Theater as a promoter of a \"womanist\" direction in the theater and her work focused on folklore, myths, black legends, and classical works reinterpreted. She worked in venues including the Biltmore Theatre (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New York City), Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.). In 1971, she received an Emmy nomination and in 1972 a Peabody Award.She conceived and/or adapted numerous vehicles for the stage from various dramatic and non-dramatic sources, including the \"miracle play\": 'Jesus Christ, Lawd Today; Owen's Song; The Unfinished Song; Rashomon; Torture of Mothers; Jump at the Sun; Re/Membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show and Every Step I Take. She conceived and directed Eel Catching in Setauket: A Living Portrait of a Community, an oral history, creative performance project which documented the lives of the African-American Christian Avenue community in Setauket, Long Island. She performed in her one-woman shows, Saffron Persephone Brown: The Flower-storm of a Brown Woman; Spreading Lies, and in The Trojan Women: A Tale of Devastation for Two Voices.She wrote African American Theater: A Cultural Companion, and completed a 2-disk DVD, \"What's Cookin' in the Kitchen? A Planetary Portrait 9/11/01 - 9/11/04,\" which documented her \"Kitchen Prayers\" series. At the University of Michigan she was Head of the African American Theater Minor and served as Director of the Center for World Performance Studies. Before Michigan, She was head of the Department of Drama and Dance at Spelman College and she taught at Rutgers University both, the New Brunswick and Newark campuses. Glenda Dickerson was also an Assistant Professor of Directing in the Department of Theater at Howard University and Chair of the Theater Department at The Duke Ellington School of the Arts (formerly, The School of the Arts at Western). She was the playwright with Breena Clarke of Re/Membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show which is published in Colored Contradictions, An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays edited by Harry J. Elam and Robert Alexander and in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, An Anthology edited by Kathy Perkins and Roberta Uno She held the distinction, along with Vinnette Carroll, of being one of the few African-American women to have directed on Broadway and she has directed such actors as Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield, Charles Brown, Phillip Michael Thomas, Robert Townsend, Clifton Powell, and many others.".
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