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Cherryl Floyd-Miller

CHERRYL FLOYD-MILLER  (1967 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Cherryl Floyd-Miller is an American poet, playwright and fiber artist. She has held writing fellowships, grants and residencies with Poets & Writers, Inc., Idyllwild, the Fulton County Arts Council, Caldera, Cave Canem, the Vermont Studio Center and the Indiana Arts Commission. She is the 2006 winner of the Poetry Daily-Virginia Arts of the Book Companion Poems Contest and the 2002 winner of the Hughes, Diop, Knight Poetry Prize. Her first book of poems, Utterance: a Museology of Kin, was a finalist for the 2002 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and 2001 semi-finalist for the Kathryn A. Porter Prize in Poetry. author of two published volumes of poems, her second collection, Chops (2004, Nexus Press), was a 2005 winner of the aIGa Gold SeeD award. It is housed in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern art. Her third collection, exquisite Heats, is scheduled for release in 2008 with Salt Publishing. Her plays have been produced in the Southeast and Midwest regions. Widely anthologized and published in many national literary journals, her latest work is about the life of American tap legend Gregory Hines. a native of North Carolina, she has two children.

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below is a list of Cherryl Floyd-Miller's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Abijah's Luce         God, Please Send Me A Boo         Patriot Acts         Settling Sophia         She-Monger         Space Dust         Yellowbill

Abijah's Luce

Synopsis:
the real and imagined life of African-American writer Lucy Terry Prince.

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Genre:
Historical Drama Historical

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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God, Please Send Me A Boo

Synopsis:
Cadence is a comedian who is credited for coining the word "Boo," used as a term of endearment to refer to a significant other. She recounts the two most important romances (with Ponce and Ticker) that led to her use of the word and tells us how it caught on.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Patriot Acts

Synopsis:
a cycle of one-act plays that examines the meanings of freedom by exploring the freedoms enjoyed by (and denied) Americans.

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This play has quite A bit of mature content. It is not recommended for high school students.

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Genre:
Drama, Magic Realism One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Various . . . each play has no more than three characters

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Settling Sophia

Synopsis:
Chelsea Bridges has not yet been born. She looks ahead at her life to discover she will be born a white woman in the American South with a husband, two daughters and a best friend who happens to be black. When her mother suffers an emotional breakdown, she finds a box of letters that reveal her biological father is black . . and worse - her biological father is also her best friend's father. Will she decide to be born?

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Play Also produced Fall 2004 At Western Michigan University And directed by Dr. Von Washington. First production directed by Scott Pardue. This play makes use of puppets, which can easily be constructed with lighting or voice overs

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New World Stage Theatre, North Carolina    2003

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Genre:
3 act Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  the Voice of the Fetus

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She-Monger

Synopsis:
auntieSis and HighJohn are a married couple whose union has fallen apart because of a perceived infidelity. In a story that tries to find the root causes of infidelity, auntieSis is forced to closely examine the relationship between HighJohn and the young, beautiful Uuaa. their story begs three questions: Did HighJohn really cheat? If he did, at what moment could he have walked away and saved his marriage? Because auntieSis believes he did, how many lives have been affected?

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Genre:
2 act verse play Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Space Dust

Synopsis:
Four men own a funeral business together. When one of them, the crematorium owner, goes to jail for not cremating his clients' bodies, the other three men must revisit all their beliefs about death and life beyond their small rural town.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Yellowbill

Synopsis:
YellowBill is an enslaved man whose New Orleans owners have just sold him to a new owner in North Carolina. Though he has a strong reputation among the other slaves as a medicine man, and is one of the best field laborers on the new plantation, he is most interested in the art of quilting that he learned from his grandmother. as everyone soon discovers, there's more than stitching in these quilts.

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Genre:
2 act Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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