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New Dramatists
Dramatists Guild of America
New Dramatists member, Sharon Bridgforth is the 2010 – 2011 Multicultural Faculty member at DePaul University’s Theatre School. Her piece, blood pudding is in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. Her work has received support from The National Endowment For The Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence Program and the National Performance Network Commissioning Fund. She is author of the Lambda Literary Award winning, the bull-jean stories, and love conjure/blues, both published by RedBone Press. She is one of the editors of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, Summer 2010, University of Texas Press.
New Dramatists member Sharon Bridgforth is a writer working in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic. She is recipient of the 2010 Esteem Award and is the 2010 – 2011 Multicultural Faculty member at DePaul University’s Theatre School. Her piece, blood pudding is in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. Fall 2009 Artist In-Residence in Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Bridgforth is listed in the Campus Pride 2009 “HOT LIST” — Top 25 Favorite LGBT Artists. Winner of the 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize, Bridgforth’s work has received support from the National Endowment For The Arts Commissioning Program; the National Endowment For The Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence Program; the National Performance Network Commissioning Fund; the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media; and the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund. Her work has been presented around the country at venues including the Walker Art Center and La Pena Cultural Center. Bridgforth is author of the Lambda Literary Award winning, the bull-jean stories and love conjure/blues, a performance/novel. Both books are published by RedBone Press. She is an affiliate of The Austin Project, sponsored by The John L. Warfield Center For African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Bridgforth’s Finding Voice Facilitation Manuel is published in, Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, edited by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Dr. Lisa L. Moore and Bridgforth (Summer, 2010. University of Texas Press).
Bridgforth’s work has fostered the study of The Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic and of Black lesbian performance literature in academia. Some of the professors who have taught her work are: Jeannette M. E. Lee, Hampshire College; Gregory Ramos, University of Vermont; Lisa Anderson, Arizona State, Phoenix; Lisa Arnold, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Daniel Banks, NYU, Tisch School For The Arts-Drama; K. Bradford, Columbia College, Chicago Il.; Jill Dolan, Princeton University; Kirsten Gardner, University of Texas, San Antonio; Carol Guess, Western Washington University; Amy Karp, University of Maryland; Laura Harris, Pitzer College; Lisa Hernandez and Doug Norman St. Edward’s University; Kristen Hogen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Phyllis Jackson, Pomona College; Joyce Ann Joyce, Temple University; E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, Chicago IL.; Cherrie Moraga, Stanford University; Matt Richardson, University of California, Berkeley; Francesca Royster, De Paul University; Meg Sullivan, Texas A&M; Natasha Tinsley, University of Minnesota; Stacy Wolf, Princeton University; Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Iowa; Lisa L. Moore, Deborah A Paredez, Kristen Hogan, Daniel Alexander Jones, Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Matt Richardson and Timothy Turner; University of Texas at Austin.
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