Suzan-Lori Parks in Person

Philip C. Kolin is the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Southern Mississippi. He has published more than 40 books and 200 articles and is the editor of the Southern Quarterly.Harvey Young is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University. His books include Theatre & Race (2013) and Embodying Black Experience (2010).

'Will definitely fill a wide and gaping lacuna in this field of theatre scholarship.' - Dr Alison Forsythe, University of Aberystwyth, UK'This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in American Drama.' - Soyica Colbert, Dartmouth College, UK'This collection will serve as a very helpful co-text for readers of Parks’s notoriously “difficult” plays, as it gives background and context, as well as possible readings of some of the more cryptic lines and figures.' - Deborah Thompson, Colorado State University, Modern Drama'Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries is an essential addition to dramatic literary scholarship, in that it provides a textured, critical--if penultimate--interactive means through which to meet Parks, as a dramatist, a thinker, and as a person whose work continues to probe human relations historically and presently, thoughtfully and dynamically.' - Jaye Austin Williams, California State University, Long Beach, Text & Presentation 'In total, Suzan-Lori Parks in Person is an engaging work that offers insights into the playwright's mind and work, from her undergraduate thesis to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog and her international project 365 Days/365Plays. Kolin and Young provide texts that explore not only how she works but also how she develops seeds of ideas into fully realized productions.' - Valerie M. Joyce, Villanova University, Comparative Drama

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsWatch Me Work: Reflections on Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Canon PART I: Interviews Theater’s Vibrant New Voice (1992)Patti HartiganIs Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks the Voice of the Future? (1993)Erika MunkSuzan-Lori Parks (1994)Han OngAlien Nation (1994)Michele PearceMaking History (1996)Tom SellarFor Posterior’s Sake (1996)Una ChaudhuriAdrienne Kennedy (1996)Suzan-Lori Parks Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (1996)Shelby Jiggetts Love and War Seen in Black and White (1997)Ronni GordonSuzan-Lori Parks (1999)David SavranAn Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks at Cal Arts (2000)Lisa CollettaA Better Mirror (2000)Kathy SovaMythology, History, Family, Performance (2001)Rick DesRochersA Moment with…Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright (2003)John MarshallInterview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Bonnie Metzgar (2006)Joseph RoachIt’s an Oberammergau Thing (2007)Kevin J. Wetmore An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks (2010) Shawn-Marie GarrettConversation with Suzan-Lori Parks (2011)Dave Steakley PART II: CommentariesRemarks on Parks I (2004)Jonathan Kalb, Robert Brustein, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Mark Robinson, Alisa SolomonRemarks on Parks II (2004)Jonathan Kalb, Richard Foreman, Liz Diamond, Leah C. Gardiner, Bill WaltersThe Birth of The Death of the Last Black Man: Recollections of the First Staging (2013)Beth SchachterAn Interview with Liz Diamond (2013)Philip C. KolinBonnie Metzgar on Suzan-Lori Parks (2013)Harvey Young