Suzan-Lori Parks is a leading American playwright. Her numerous
plays include Father Comes Home From the Wars (2015 Pulitzer Prize
finalist), The Book of Grace, Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer
Prize), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (1996
OBIE Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire
World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
(1990 OBIE Award for Best New American Play) and The America Play.
Her work on The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess earned the production a
Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical in 2012. In 2007 her 365
Plays/365 Days was produced in more than seven hundred theatres
worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in
theatre history.
Named one of TIME magazine’s '100 Innovators for the Next New
Wave', in 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American
woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit
Topdog/Underdog. She was the 2018 recipient of the Steinberg
Distinguished Playwright Award.
'Powerfully illuminates the issues of language and social
injustice'
*MusicOMH*
'In The Blood is an electrifying drama...the play is gritty, yet
full of imaginative flourishes. The language keeps pricking your
ears.'
*Washington Post*
'[Suzan-Lori Parks has] burst through every known convention to
invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while
exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the
way'
*New York Observer*
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