Photo Credit: Vanessa Vargas
Sharon Bridgforth, a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009. Pillsbury House Theatre received a 2012 MAP Fund award in support of her current work in-progress, River See. River See is a 2012 National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Links Hall (Chicago), Living Arts of Tulsa, Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami), Pillsbury House Theatre (MLPS), The Theatre Offensive (Boston) and NPN. Her piece, blood pudding, was produced in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. The 2010 – 2012 Visiting Multicultural Faculty member at The Theatre School at DePaul University, Bridgforth is 2009 Mellon Artist In-Residence in The Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She is recipient of The Theater Offensive 2012 Out On The Edge Award, and the 2008 Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize. Bridgforth is the author of love conjure/blues and the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories, RedBone Press. She is co-editor of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project, University of Texas Press.
Sharon Bridgforth, is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Her current work in-progress, River See has received a 2012 MAP Fund Award and a 2012 National Performance Network Creation Fund Award. Her piece, blood pudding, was produced in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival. Bridgforth is the 2010 – 2012 Visiting Multicultural Faculty member at The Theatre School at DePaul University. Bridgforth is the author of love conjure/blues and the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories, RedBone Press. She is co-editor of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project,, University of Texas Press.
Some of the professors who have taught Bridgforth’s work are:
Elmo Terry-Morgan, Brown University; Patricia R. Schroeder, Ursinus College; Shirley Moody-Turner, Pennsylvania State University; Jeannette M. E. Lee, Hampshire College; Alison Reed, University of California, Santa Barbara; 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, St. Edward’s University; Joyce Ann Joyce, Temple University; E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, Chicago IL.; Cherrie Moraga, Stanford University; Sandra L. Richards, Northwestern University; Francesca Royster, DePaul University; Meg Sullivan, Texas A&M; Natasha Tinsley, University of Minnesota; Stacy Wolf, Princeton University; Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Kentucky; Daniel Alexander Jones, Fordham University; Lisa L. Moore, Meta Jones, Deborah A Paredez, Kristen Hogan, Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Matt Richardson, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Timothy Turner; University of Texas at Austin.
(Photo Credit: Cheryl Coward)
