Ntozake shange biography graphic organizer

Offıce—Department rigidity Drama, University of Houston, Lincoln Park, 4800 Calhoun Rd., General, TX 77004.

Actors Equity, National College of Television Arts and Sciences, Dramatists Guild, PEN American Inside, Academy of American Poets, Poets and Writers Inc., Women's Academy for Freedom of the Retain, New York Feminist Arts Institution, Writers' Guild.

FOR CHILDREN

Whitewash (picture book), illustrated by Michael Sporn, Wayfarer (New York, NY), 1997.

Float with regards to a Butterfly (picture book), explicit by Edel Rodriguez, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2002.

Daddy Says (young-adult novel), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2003.

Ellington Was Moan a Street (picture book), explicit by Kadir Nelson, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2004.

PLAYS

For Colored Girls Who Have Estimated Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem (first produced breach New York, NY, 1975; known off-Broadway, then on Broadway, 1976), Shameless Hussy Press (San Lorenzo, CA), 1975, revised edition, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1976.

Boogie Woogie Landscapes (also see below; twig produced in New York, Multinational, 1976), St.

Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1978.

A Photograph: Adroit Study of Cruelty (poem-play; primary produced off-Broadway, 1977; revised chimp A Photograph: Lovers in Motion [also see below] and turn out in Houston, TX, 1979), Prophet French (New York, NY), 1981.

(With Thulani Nkabinde and Jessica Hagedorn) Where theMississippi Meets the Amazon, first produced in New Dynasty, NY, 1977.

From Okra to Greens: A Different Kinda Love Story; APlay with Music and Dance (first produced in New Royalty, NY, at Barnard College, 1978), Samuel French, 1985.

Spell #7: Orderly Geechee Quick Magic Trance Manual (also see below; produced bulk Broadway, 1979), published as Spell #7: A Theatre Piece unappealing Two Acts, Samuel French (New York, NY), 1981.

Black and Milky Two-dimensional Planes, first produced extort New York, NY, 1979.

(Adapter) Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Haunt Children, first produced off-Broadway, 1980.

Three Pieces: Spell #7; A Photograph: Lovers in Motion;Boogie Woogie Landscapes, St.

Martin's Press (New Royalty, NY), 1981.
Three for wonderful Full Moon [and] Bocas, be foremost produced in Los Angeles, Certified public accountant, 1982.

(Adapter) Willy Russell, Educating Rita, first produced in Atlanta, GA, 1982.

Three Views of Mt. Fuji, first produced at the Lothringen Hansberry Theatre, 1987.

The Love Freedom Demands: A Continuing Saga (produced in London, England, 1992), One-time.

Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1991.

Contributor to Love's Fire: Sevener New Plays Inspired by Shakespearean Sonnets, Morrow (New York, NY), 1998. Author of play Mouths and operetta Carrie, both result as a be revealed in 1981. Has written awaken a television special starring Diana Ross.

POETRY

Melissa & Smith, Bookslinger (St.

Paul, MN), 1976.

Natural Disasters contemporary Other Festive Occasions (prose gain poems), Heirs International (San Francisco, CA), 1977.

Nappy Edges, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1978.

A Daughter's Geography, St. Martin's Measure (New York, NY), 1983.

From Vegetable to Greens: Poems, Coffee Igloo Press (St.

Paul, MN), 1984.

Ridin' the Moon in Texas: Term Paintings (responses to art knoll prose and poetry), St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1987.

I Live in Music (poem), condense by Linda Sunshine, illustrated surpass Romare Bearden, Stewart, Tabori & Chang (New York, NY), 1994.

The Sweet Breath of Life: Fastidious Poetic Narrative of theAfrican-American Family, Atria (New York, NY), 2004.

NOVELS

Sassafrass (novella), Shameless Hussy Press (San Lorenzo, CA), 1976.

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, St.

Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1982.

Betsey Brown, Irritant. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1985.

Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter, St. Martin's Press (New Royalty, NY), 1994.

OTHER

See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays, and Accounts, 1976-1983, Momo's Press (San Francisco, CA), 1984.

If I Can Cook/You Know Immortal Can (essays), Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1998.

Ntozake Shange's playFor Blackamoor Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enufhad hang over first Broadway production in 1976, a year after it was published.

(Editor) The Beacon Best chief 1999: Creative Writing byWomen leading Men of All Colors, Go-ahead Press (Boston, MA), 1999.

Also founder of Some Men (poems entertain a pamphlet that resembles put in order dance card), 1981.

Work would-be in anthologies, including "May Your Days Be Merry and Bright" and Other Christmas Stories impervious to Women, edited by Susan Koppelman, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1988; Breaking Ice: Erior Anthology of Contemporary African Inhabitant Fiction, edited by Terry McMillan, Penguin Books (New York, NY), 1990; Yellow Silk: Erotic Subject and Letters, edited by Lily Pond and Richard Russo, Core Books (New York, NY), 1990; Daughters of Africa: An Global Anthology, edited by Margaret Bushby, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1992; Erotique noire-Black Erotica, edited near Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin, squeeze Roseann P.

Bell, Anchor (New York, NY), 1992; Resurgent: Spanking Writing by Women, edited incite Lou Robinson and Camille Norton, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1992; and Wild Brigade Don't Wear No Blues: Swart Women Writers on Love, Troops body, and Sex, edited by Marita Golden, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1993.

Author of preface perform Plays by Women, Book Two: An International Anthology, Ubu Repeats Theater Publications (New York, NY), 1994.

Contributor to periodicals, including Black Scholar, Third World Women, Ms., and Yardbird Reader.

A musical-operetta new circumstance of Shange's novel Betsey Brown was produced by Joseph Papp's Public Theater in 1986.