Date:
Location:
"Race(ing) Othello; Writing Back—Talking Back: The Re-visioning of Drama's Most (In)famous Black Character in Harlem Duet"
Speaker:
Djanet Sears, Theatre Director, Adjunct Professor in drama, University of Toronto.
Contact:
Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
Celebrated Canadian playwright Djanet Sears is an acclaimed theatre director and an adjunct professor in drama at the University of Toronto. Her plays have been widely produced, published and translated. Selected productions include: The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish Productions, Nightwood Theatre, Obsidian Theatre); Harlem Duet (Black Theatre Workshop, The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Nightwood Theatre, CanStage), and Afrika Solo (Black Theatre Workshop, Factory Theatre, Theatre Fountainhead). She is the editor of two anthologies: Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vols. I & II. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, a Creative Fellow at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Warwick University, Playwright-in-Residence at Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, and International Artist-in-Residence at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York City. Her honours include the Governor General's Literary Award, the Canadian Screenwriting Award, the Gold Prize at the International Radio Festival Of New York, a Chalmers Fellowship, a Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, the Toronto Arts Foundation Award, the African Canadian Achievement Award, the Harry Jerome Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
Chair:
George Elliott Clarke, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto.
