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THEODORE WARD  (1902 - 1983)

Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Elise Virginia Ward  


James Theodore Ward was born 15 Sep 1902. He was an African-American author and playwright. From Thibodaux, La. he was one of eleven children from the family of John Ward and Louise Pierre Ward. Young Ward wrote a play as a child though his father was non-supportive. In 1936, he won second prize in a writing competition for his one-act presentation Sick 'n Tiahd. This led to his acquaintance with Richard Wright the man who won first prize. Through Wright, Ward joined the Chicago Writers Workshop of the WPA Federal Theatre, where he wrote a critical piece for Big White Fog, a production about the Garvey Movement. When the WPA ended, Ward brought the play to New York where it became the first production of the Negro Playwrights Company. In 1947 Our Lan, Ward's play about the Reconstruction South was moved from a successful run at the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse to Broadway's Royale Theatre. The play ran on Broadway for 42 performances before it closed. In 1949, Ward became the first Black dramatist to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship enabling him to write a play about the abolitionist John Brown. The play was later produced in Chicago at the Skyloft Theatre in 1951. His play, The Daubers, was produced in Chicago in 1969. Over his lifetime, Ward wrote more than 30theatrical productions, essays, poetry and pieces of two folk operas. James Theodore Ward lived and worked in Chicago from 1968 until his death in 1983.

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Bell and the Light, The         Big Money         Big White Fog         Candle in the Wind         Charity         Daubers, The         Deliver The Goods         Even The Dead Rise         Falcon Of Adowa         John Brown         John de Conqueror         Madison         Of Human Grandeur         Our Lan'         Shout Hallelujah         Sick and Tired (Sick and Tiahd)         Throwback         Whole Hog or Nothing