Carlyle Brown is an American playwright, performer and the artistic director and founder of the Minneapolis-based Carlyle Brown & Company. His notable plays include The African Company Presents Richard the Third, Pure Confidence, The Beggar's Strike, The Negro of Peter the Great, A Big Blue Nail, The Pool Room, Dartmoor Prison, Yellow Moon Rising, Down in the Mississippi and others.
Awards and honors
He is the 2018 William Inge Theater Festival Honoree, a 2010 recipient of the Otto Rene' Castillo Award for Political Theatre, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the 2006 The Black Theatre Network's Winona Lee Fletcher Award for outstanding achievement and artistic excellence. == Plays ==
Plays
Original plays • Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show (1992) • The African Company Presents Richard III (1994) • Buffalo Hair (1995) • ''The Beggar's Strike'' (2004) • The Pool Room (2004) • The Fula From America • Pure Confidence (2005) • Are You Now or Have You Ever Been... (2012) • The Amen Corner (2013) • Abe Lincoln and Uncle Tom in the White House (2014) • Down in Mississippi (2017) first edition 2008 ==References==