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Ray Aranha

RAY ARANHA

  (1939 - 2011)
Nationality:    African American
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Ray Aranha,has studied at Florida A & M University, and has taught workshops on acting and writing in school and community situations with children, young adults, adults. Has received the Drama Desk award, Rockefeller Playwright-in-Residence grant, among other honors.

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         Akosula Of the First And Final Day         Clowns' Corner Concert, The         Creedmore         Estate, The         Fugue On A Funny House         Holidays         I Am Black         Lizzie         My Sister, My Sister         Nature Of Violence, The         New Year's         Orphans And Canibals         Passion For Shadows, A         Remington         Snow Pressings         Sons And Fathers Of Sons         Visions Of the Fire Eater         Way Back When         Willie C, Your'N Fer the Axin

Akosula Of the First And Final Day

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Clowns' Corner Concert, The

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Hartford Stage Company, Ct    

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Creedmore

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Estate, The

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a probing Drama of the many-layered and diverse masks which men wear to conceal their disturbing passions from themselves and from their most intimate family and friends. Rooted in history, the thematic conflicts are represented through the personal struggles of Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemmings, Martha Patsy Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker, abigail adams, all of whom lived, whose struggles were real etchings in the fabric of our American past. the cumulative struggles of the characters finally accumulate to represent an even wider focus: the many-layered and diverse masks which America wears as a nation to conceal disturbing truths from itself

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Hartford Stage Company, Ct     1976

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Play/Drama

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Fugue On A Funny House

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Holidays

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I Am Black

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Monologue play

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Lizzie

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Rites And Reason Theatre, Brown University     1982

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My Sister, My Sister

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a Drama of the nightmares of a young woman in the South, whose love is so innocent and single-minded that she cannot divorce herself from the fanatic holy faith of her mother, the intense sexuality of her sister and the almost childlike love for living of her father. She loves all three and embraces all three, and when Sister, Mother, Father rip each other and their home apart, so is the young woman ripped apart

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Hartford Stage Company, Ct     1973

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Nature Of Violence, The

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New Year's

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Death comes calling for a prostitute with a "heart of gold."

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Short Play One act

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Orphans And Canibals

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Passion For Shadows, A

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Blue Heron Theatre, New York     2001

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Remington

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a one-man show based on the life and work of FredEric Remington. the audience is Mr. Remington's guest for a night of story-telling and philosophising about the changing Old West

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Snow Pressings

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Sons And Fathers Of Sons

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set within three decades of the 40s, 50s and 60s. the action contrasts the development of three disparate young men.

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Visions Of the Fire Eater

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Way Back When

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Willie C, Your'N Fer the Axin

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