Antoinette Nwandu

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Antoinette Nwandu is an American playwright based in New York.

Background[edit]

Antoinette Nwandu was born and raised in Los Angeles. She studied at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, and was the 2015–2016 Naked Angels Issues Playlab Resident at The New School for Performing Arts.[1] Nwandu was also a 2013–2014 Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Fellow. She frequently performs with the spoken-word ensemble Sister Scribes.[2]

Nwandu has worked with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project,[3] Page73,[4] Ars Nova,[5] The Flea,[6] Naked Angels, Fire This Time,[7] The Movement Theater Company,[8] WordBRIDGE, and Dreamscape Theatre.[9] She has received the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award[10] for Flat Sam in 2009 and the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Prize.[11] She has also been a Playwrights of New York Fellowship finalist, a Page73 Fellowship finalist, an NBT (National Black Theatre) I Am Soul Fellowship finalist, and a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist.[12]

In 2015, Nwandu's play Pass Over was a finalist for the Ruby Prize.[13] It was included on the 2016 Kilroys' List.[14] Pass Over premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in May 2017.[15] The play was recorded live at the Steppenwolf Theatre, adapted for film by co-director Danya Taymor and co-director and producer Spike Lee and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 20, 2018.[16][17][18] Its New York debut was at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in June 2018.[19]

Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate was staged at Victory Gardens Theater in 2018 by director Lisa Portes.[20]

Notable works[edit]

  • FLAT SAM (2013)
  • Vanna White Must Die (2012)
  • Black Boy & the War (2011)
  • 4 Sustenance (2012)
  • Pass Over (2017)
  • BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate (2018)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Bio". antoinettenwandu.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  2. ^ "Antoinette Nwandu". doollee.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  3. ^ "Mentor Project", Cherry Lane Theatre.
  4. ^ "Page 73 playwrights in 2016-17 seasons, around the country!" Archived 2017-04-12 at the Wayback Machine, Page73.
  5. ^ "Ars Nova's Play Group: Antoinette Nwandu", YouTube.
  6. ^ "SERIALS @ The Flea".
  7. ^ The Fire This Time Festival.
  8. ^ The Movement Theatre Company at The Common Good.
  9. ^ The Dreamscape Theatre.
  10. ^ "The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award", The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
  11. ^ "NEC’s First Douglas Turner Ward Emerging Writers Award at Tisch NYU", NECArtz.
  12. ^ "Victory Gardens Completes Casting for 2016 IGNITION Festival of New Plays", Broadway World, August 5, 2016.
  13. ^ "Announcing the 2015 Ruby Prize Winner Winner and Finalists", Southern Rep Theatre.
  14. ^ Editors, American Theatre (June 21, 2016). "The Kilroys List 32 Unproduced Works by Women and Trans Playwrights". americantheatre.org. Retrieved March 26, 2017. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ^ "Antoinette Nwandu". indietheaternow.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  16. ^ "Pass Over". IMDb (Internet Movie Database). Amazon. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  17. ^ Clement, Olivia (June 29, 2018). "10 Moments That Made Pass Over Possible". Playbill.
  18. ^ "Pass Over". Amazon Prime Video. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  19. ^ "Chicago actors in LCT3's 'Pass Over'". Chicago Tribune. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  20. ^ Jones, Chris (March 7, 2017). "Victory Gardens kicks off 2017-18 season with 'Fun Home'". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
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