Endeavors: Kia Corthron, Windham Campbell Prize winner fior Drama, in Conversation with Nicholas Forster

Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 11:45am to 1:45pm
African American Studies Department See map
81 Wall St, Gordon Parks Seminar Room 201

Kia Corthron came to national attention in the early nineties with her play, Come Down Burning. Its highly unusual stylistic blend of emotion and subject matter drawn from the obscure and unknown histories of her characters’ lives has been widely admired and imitated. Portraying characters who live in extreme poverty or crisis, whose lives are otherwise invisible, her plays paint a disturbing picture of American history and its repercussions on our most intimate relationships. She is the author of more than fifteen plays, including Breath, Boom; The Venus de Milo is Armed; Tap the Leopard; and A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick. She has also written episodes for the acclaimed television series’ The Wire and The Jury. Among her numerous awards are The Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theater Woman, the VCCA Wachtmeister Award and the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award.

Nicholas Forster is a graduate student in the Department of African American Studies and American Studies. View Nicholas Forster’s graduate student page in African American Studies.