Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks | |
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Parks in 2006 | |
| Born | May 10, 1963 Fort Knox, Kentucky, U.S. |
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| Education | Mount Holyoke College (BA) Drama Studio London |
| Notable works | The America Play (1994) Venus (1996) In The Blood (1999) Fuckin A (2000) Topdog/Underdog (2001) White Noise (2019) |
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Christian Konopka (current) |
| Children | 1 |
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Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Among her most popular plays are The America Play (1994), Venus (1996), In The Blood (1999), Fuckin A (2000), Topdog/Underdog (2001), and White Noise (2019). These works and others have been performed on and off Broadway and the West End.
Among numerous awards and honors, Parks is the recipient of MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, The Windham–Campbell Literature Prize, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Obie Award, and two Tony Award. In 2003 she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Parks served as creator and showrunner for the 2017 USA limited series Genius: Aretha, which was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards. Her screenwriting credits include Girl 6 (1996), Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), Native Son (2019), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). Her work on these films has earned her an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Television) and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay nomination. In 2023 Time magazine named Parks one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.