Aimée K. Michel is Associate Professor of Theater at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. She was the Artistic Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for over 10 years where she produced new American plays. Before this, she was Artistic Director of the Drama League’s Directors Project in New York City where she created the New Directors/New Works program. As a freelance director, she has directed in theaters all over the country. She was a recipient of both the Drama League’s Directors Project Fellowship and the Boris Segal Directing Fellowship at Williamstown Theater Festival.Wesley Brown is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. He co-edited the multicultural anthologies, ‘Imagining America’ (fiction), ‘Visions of America’ (non-fiction), edited the Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass and wrote the narration for a segment of the PBS documentary, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in four Voices. In addition, he is the author of four produced plays, Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, A Prophet Among Them, and Dark Meat on a Funny Mind; three novels, Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, PushComes to SHOVE and a short story collection, Dance of the Infidels.

This important collection from unjustifiably less well-known American theatre giants confirms their place in the Western theatrical and literary canon, and crucially champions women's voices and vision on stage over a fifty year period.

• ForewordIntroductionIntroduction to Susan Yankowitz by Wesley BrownGun by Susan Yankowitz Introduction to Ntozake Shange by Wesley BrownSpell #7 : geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people by Ntozake ShangeIntroduction to Beth Henley by Aimée K. MichelThe Jacksonian by Beth HenleyIntroduction to Paula Vogel by Aimée K. MichelThe Baltimore Waltz by Paula VogelIntroduction to Suzan-Lori Parks by Wesley BrownIn the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Introduction to Lynn Nottage by Aimée K. MichelIntimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage

Aimée K. Michel is Associate Professor of Theater at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. She was the Artistic Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for over 10 years where she produced new American plays. Before this, she was Artistic Director of the Drama League’s Directors Project in New York City where she created the New Directors/New Works program. As a freelance director, she has directed in theaters all over the country. She was a recipient of both the Drama League’s Directors Project Fellowship and the Boris Segal Directing Fellowship at Williamstown Theater Festival.Wesley Brown is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. He co-edited the multicultural anthologies, ‘Imagining America’ (fiction), ‘Visions of America’ (non-fiction), edited the Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass and wrote the narration for a segment of the PBS documentary, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in four Voices. In addition, he is the author of four produced plays, Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, A Prophet Among Them, and Dark Meat on a Funny Mind; three novels, Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, PushComes to SHOVE and a short story collection, Dance of the Infidels.

This important collection from unjustifiably less well-known American theatre giants confirms their place in the Western theatrical and literary canon, and crucially champions women's voices and vision on stage over a fifty year period.

• ForewordIntroductionIntroduction to Susan Yankowitz by Wesley BrownGun by Susan Yankowitz Introduction to Ntozake Shange by Wesley BrownSpell #7 : geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people by Ntozake ShangeIntroduction to Beth Henley by Aimée K. MichelThe Jacksonian by Beth HenleyIntroduction to Paula Vogel by Aimée K. MichelThe Baltimore Waltz by Paula VogelIntroduction to Suzan-Lori Parks by Wesley BrownIn the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Introduction to Lynn Nottage by Aimée K. MichelIntimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage

Aimée K. Michel is Associate Professor of Theater at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. She was the Artistic Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for over 10 years where she produced new American plays. Before this, she was Artistic Director of the Drama League’s Directors Project in New York City where she created the New Directors/New Works program. As a freelance director, she has directed in theaters all over the country. She was a recipient of both the Drama League’s Directors Project Fellowship and the Boris Segal Directing Fellowship at Williamstown Theater Festival.Wesley Brown is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and teaches literature and creative writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA. He co-edited the multicultural anthologies, ‘Imagining America’ (fiction), ‘Visions of America’ (non-fiction), edited the Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass and wrote the narration for a segment of the PBS documentary, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in four Voices. In addition, he is the author of four produced plays, Boogie Woogie and Booker T, Life During Wartime, A Prophet Among Them, and Dark Meat on a Funny Mind; three novels, Tragic Magic, Darktown Strutters, PushComes to SHOVE and a short story collection, Dance of the Infidels.

This important collection from unjustifiably less well-known American theatre giants confirms their place in the Western theatrical and literary canon, and crucially champions women's voices and vision on stage over a fifty year period.

• ForewordIntroductionIntroduction to Susan Yankowitz by Wesley BrownGun by Susan Yankowitz Introduction to Ntozake Shange by Wesley BrownSpell #7 : geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people by Ntozake ShangeIntroduction to Beth Henley by Aimée K. MichelThe Jacksonian by Beth HenleyIntroduction to Paula Vogel by Aimée K. MichelThe Baltimore Waltz by Paula VogelIntroduction to Suzan-Lori Parks by Wesley BrownIn the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks Introduction to Lynn Nottage by Aimée K. MichelIntimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage