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Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

ELIZABETH BROWN-GUILLORY

  
Nationality:    African American
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Elizabeth Brown-Guillory has had twelve plays produced in Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, Denver, New Orleans, Houston, Cleveland, and Chicago. Her plays include Bayou Relics', Snapshots of Broken Dolls, Mam Phyllis, La Bakair, When the Ancestors Call, and the Break of Day. Ten of her plays have been published in Black Drama: 1850 to Present, an on-line collection of 1,200 plays by Blacks. Her book, their Place on the Stage has been described as "a reference work importANT to anyone studying black women playwrights or black drama". She is professor of English at the University of Houston.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Bayou Relics         Break of Day, The         La Bakair         Mam Phyllis         Marry Me Again         Saving Grace         Snapshots Of Broken Dolls         When the Ancestors Call

Bayou Relics

Synopsis:
about senior citizens in a nursing home in southwest Louisiana who envy the youth of young people.

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Spartanburg Arts Center, Spartanburg, Sc    Mar 1981

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Contemporary Drama Service 1983   -

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long one act comey

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Break of Day, The

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In Black Theatre in Texas. Ed. Sandra Mayo and Ervin Holt. Austin: University of Texas Press (2011)   -

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La Bakair

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the SUNO REVIEW: A Journal of the Arts and Humanities 1:2 (Spring 2001): 49-88.   -

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Mam Phyllis

Synopsis:
Love, ambition and ageing in Louisiana

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-    1981

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Contained in: "Wines In the Wilderness: Plays By African American Women From the Harlem Renaissance To the Present" published by Greenwood 1990   -

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full length comedy

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Marry Me Again

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about a newly wed couple making adjustments in their relationship.

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Dillard University    Mar 1984

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one act comedy

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Saving Grace

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the Griot (the official journal of the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.) 22.2 (Fall 2003): 47-66.   -

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Snapshots Of Broken Dolls

Synopsis:
Three generations of Louisiana women waiting for the birth of the fourth generation

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1st Produced:
Lincoln Centre, Ny    1986

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Contemporary Drama Service 1987   -

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When the Ancestors Call

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In Black Theatre in Texas. Ed. Sandra Mayo and Ervin Holt. Austin: University of Texas Press (2011)   -

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