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Lonnie Carter ... André De Shields
Lonnie Carter
Playwright
Teacher of Drama and Film
Box 199
Salisbury, CT 06068
860 435-4511
fax 860 435-4604
SELECTED WORKS
LEMUEL
Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1996
La Mama, E.T.C., New York City, 1996 (Rap Opera version)
GULLIVER
La Mama, E.T.C., 1993
Berkshire Public Theater, Pittsfield, MA, 1990
Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference, CT, 1989
GULLIVER REDUX
La Mama, E.T.C., 1994
I. B. RANDY, JR.
La Mama, E.T.C., 1996
Crossroads Theater, New Jersey, 1995 (as part of HAARLEM NOCTURNE)
NuYorican Poets' Theater, New York City, 1994
La Mama, E.T.C., 1994
NECKTIE PARTY
Victory Gardens Theater, 1987
MOTHERS AND SONS
Victory Gardens, 1987
THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BOOGEDY BOOGEDY
New Federal Theater, New York City, 1986
Victory Gardens Theater, 1985
Chicago Theater Company, 1985
BICICLETTA
Theater Colonnades, New York City, 1983
THE BIG HOUSE
Yale Repertory Theater, 1971
IZ SHE IZZY OR IZ HE AIN'TZY OR IZ THEY BOTH
Manhattan Theater Club, 1972
Yale Repertory Theater, 1970
VIDEO TAPE PRODUCTIONS
at the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library, Theater on Film and Tape Collection (TOFT)
GULLIVER, 1993 (from La Mama production)
GULLIVER, 1990 (from Berkshire production)
THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BOOGEDY BOOGEDY, 1986 (from New Federal production)
BICICLETTA, 1983 (from Colonnades production)
STAGED READINGS (partial)
The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the New York Theater Workshop, the Yale Repertory Theater, the Negro Ensemble Company, Victory Gardens, the Playwrights' Unit of Albee-Barre-Wilder.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (partial)
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1979-'86 and '87 to the present.
New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 1989 to the present.
Advisor.
Institute of Film and Television. Dramatic Writing Program. Undergraduate Film and Television. Playwriting, Screenwriting. Graduate Admission Committee. Adjunct Associate Professor.
Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, 1988-92.
Advanced Playwriting.
Columbia University, Hammerstein Theater Center, 1987-1990.
George Washington University, Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence, 1986-87.
University of Hartford, 1984-1986, 1988-1992.
EDUCATION
Yale School of Drama, M.F.A. Playwriting and Dramatic Literature (Highest Honors), 1969
Marquette University, English/Philosophy, Drama B.A. 1964, Drama M.A. 1966
PUBLISHED WORKS
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY, Broadway Play Publishing, 1997
THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BOOGEDY BOOGEDY, Locust Hill Press, 1986
CURRENT PROJECTS
LAMB AND BYRON, Manuscript
POPS, in workshop
BABY GLO, the fourth play in the Gulliver Quartet, in workshop 1998, Victory Gardens Theater
AWARDS AND HONORS
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship, 1989
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984 and 1974
CBS Fellowship at the Yale Repertory Theater, 1975
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1971
Molly Kazan Award for Best Original Play, Yale School of Drama, 1967
ADDITIONAL
Member of the Dramatists' Guild
REPRESENTATION
NEXUS, The Agency - Clyde Kuemmerle
440 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027
212 865-9239
André De Shields
André De Shields is an actor, director and educator. He was the original WIZ in THE WIZ, in the original cast of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', for which he won an Emmy, and was a Tony Award nominee in 1996 for PLAY ON. He has been a close collaborator with Lonnie Carter since 1986 on Carter's play THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BOOGEDY BOOGEDY for which he won an Audelco nomination, and the four plays of THE GULLIVER QUARTET, in which he has played the title roles and/or directed at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference and La Mama, E.T.C. The latest collaboration is entitled Lonnie Carter's Greatest Hits, conceived and directed by Mr. De Shields and will be presented April 4 for one night only at Studio Eis, 35 York Street in the "Dumbo" (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) section of Brooklyn.