Suzan-Lori Parks
American playwright and screenwriter (born 1963)
Suzan-Lori Parks
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 Awards. In 2003 she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Parks served as developer and showrunner for National Geographic series Genius: Aretha (2021), 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...
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