Representative Plays:
In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue (2013)
Choir Boy (2012)
The Brothers Size (2010)
In the Red and Brown Water (2010)
Bio:
Tarell Alvin McCraney is the Chair, and Professor in the Practice of Playwriting at the School of Drama; and is the Yale Repertory Theatre Playwright-in-Residence. He is also a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects Theater Company in Miami, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble, and co-wrote the 2016 film Moonlight, based on his own work In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His numerous awards include the Whiting Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, Windham-Campbell Prize, London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, the Paula Vogel Award, and a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.
Source: Yale School of Drama
Links:
NYU Contemporary Playwrights of Color Profile
Resources found in the UC Berkeley Library Database:
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In the Red and Brown Water (Full Text)