Glenda Dickerson
American theatre director
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Glenda Dickerson was an American director, folklorist, adaptor, writer, choreographer, actor, black theatre organizer, and educator. She was the second African-American woman to direct on Broadway, with her 1980 musical production of Reggae: a musical revelation. 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 , Circle in the Square , The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre , Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy Center . In 1971, Dickerson received an Emmy nomination and in 1972 a Peabody Award.
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- The Cult of True Womanhood: Toward a Womanist Attitude in African-American Theatre (1988) (8)
- Katrina: Acting Black / Playing Blackness (2006) (7)
- Re/membering Aunt Jemima: A Menstrual Show (1993) (1)
- Identities on Trial, a kitchen protest prayer (2003) (0)
- Essays on Theological Librarianship (1980) (0)
- Symposium: "Symbols, Signifiers and Sapphire's New Shoes" (2004) (0)
- Kitchen Prayers Peace Archive: Overview and Exhibit (2007) (0)
- Transforming Through Performing: Oral History, African-American Women's Voices and the Power of Theater (2002) (0)
- Kitchen Prayers, a performance dialogue on 9/11 and global loss (December 11, 2001) (2001) (0)
- Festivities and jubilations on the graves of the dead (2020) (0)
- Kitchen Prayers, a performance dialogue on 9/11 and global loss (May 19, 2002) (2002) (0)
- Re/membering Aunt Jemima: Rescuing the secret voice (1993) (0)
- Sapphire's New Shoe, the kitchen table summit (2004) (0)
- Symposium: "Transforming thru Performing" (2002) (0)
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