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Lee Jenkins

LEE JENKINS

  (1946 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Mercilee Lee Jenkins is a celebrated playwright, poet and performing artist in addition to being a professor of Communication & Performance Studies at San Francisco State University. She has many impressive credits including the plays, Dangerous Beauty: Love in the Age of earthquakes and AIDS, A Credit to Her Country, the Two-Bit Tango, Menopause and Desire or 452 Positions on Love, and She Rises Like a Building to the Sky, which was recently published. She also co-edited an anthology of essays and performance pieces entitled Sexualities and Communication in everyday Life. She has received grants for her playwriting from the Horizons Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the California Institute for Contemporary Art as well as Distinguished Performance Awards from the National Communication Association and the Western States Communication Association.

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         Aids         Credit to Her Country, A         Dangerous Beauty: Love in the Age of Earthquakes and AIDS         Love In the Age Of Earthquakes         She Rises Like a Building to the Sky         Spirit of Detroit         Two-Bit Tango, Menopause and Desire or 452 Positions on Love, The

Aids

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Credit to Her Country, A

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Dangerous Beauty: Love in the Age of Earthquakes and AIDS

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A bi-sexual woman becomes content with her sexuality

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Lesbian, full length

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Love In the Age Of Earthquakes

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She Rises Like a Building to the Sky

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Spirit of Detroit

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Spirit of Detroit tells the story of two people, a black man and a white woman, who return to Detroit after a long absence to find a very different city. they grew up in different worlds only three blocks from each other, survived the 1967 riot together, and meet again 40 years later. As they revisit their past, they come to a new understanding of their relationship to each other and the future of the city.

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University of Michigan    23 Mar 2013

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Two-Bit Tango, Menopause and Desire or 452 Positions on Love, The

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