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About the Writer
About …
Jamal Williams, Playwright
A novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter, Jamal Williams has a Master of Creative Writing from The University of California at San Francisco State. He is a winner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian 1st Playwriting Competition for Best Full-Length Play, 1991 (“Is You Is or Is You Ain’t”). His first novel, entitled Where Dark Things Hide, is a hybrid urban science fiction and horror novel. He founded the Uptown Playwrights Workshop in Harlem. He co-founded the Harlem Screenwriters Workshop.
Many of his works have been staged across America: Atlanta, San Francisco, Berkeley, Dallas, Washington D.C., Sacramento, Los Angeles, Winston Salem, North Carolina, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and New York City, amongst many locations. His most recent productions, an elaborate production of “Yesterday Came Too Soon” (The Dorothy Dandridge Story) starring Leslie Lewis Sword was done in April 2005 at The National Black Theatre in New York City; (Los Angeles Production, February/March 2004; and Berkeley Black Repertory Company, Berkeley, California, November 2003; and National Black Theatre Festival, Winston Salem, North Carolina, August 2003). “Return to Crosscreek” was selected as a stage reading in the R. Joyce Whitley Play Festival Karamu Theatre Company, April 2004, “Ding Dong Daddy” (Blacken Blues Theatre Festival 2004, Dallas, Texas), Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Black/White Festival 2007. “Miss Laura Maye Brown of Harlem”, NY Downtown Urban Theater Festival, Manhattan Rep Summerfest – 2007. “Last Dance of the Panther Women”, Prometheus Fire Theater Co., Stamford, Ct. 3/28/08. . ’King Willie” has just completed a three year development program with The Essential Theater Company of Washington, D.C. “Osage Avenue” (The MOVE inferno) took Honorable Mention at the 2008 Downtown Urban Theater Festival at Cherry Lane Theater in New York. Additional stage productions are: “Eulogy for the Blackman” (Theater for the New City, New York, June 2002); “The Blue Mirror Revue” (via The Writer’s Clique at Harlem Theatre Company, New York, February 2002), “Yesterday Came Too Soon: The Dorothy Dandridge Story” (The 4305 Village Theatre, September 2001). This Los Angeles production was nominated for eight Hollywood/Beverly Hills NAACP Theater Awards of 2001. The production won for Best Actress. And “House on Fire” (Theater for The New City, New York, March, 2000) was highly acclaimed. “Ding Dong Daddy” was produced in that Black/White Theater Festival, in Pittsburgh, PA in October 2007. Jamal has won numerous awards, fellowships, and scholarships. He has an extensive body of work also includes two novels, and two screenplays. Contact information: 1782 Old Rex Morrow Road, Morrow, GA, 30260; (678) 856 0114; Email: jammit50@gmail.com ; Jammit50@yahoo.com |
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