Antoinette Nwandu

Antoinette Nwandu is an African-American playwright based in New York.

Background

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 was a finalist for the Ruby Prize for her play PASS OVER.[13]

Nwandu's play PASS OVER was included on the 2016 Kilroys' List,[14] and premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in May 2017.[15] A further production will premiere at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2018.[16]

Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate will be staged at Victory Gardens Theater in 2018 by director Lisa Portes.[17]

Notable works

  • 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

  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!", 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.
  15. ↑ "Antoinette Nwandu". indietheaternow.com. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Chicago actors in LCT3's 'Pass Over'". Chicago Tribune. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  17. ↑ 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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