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Daniel W Owens

DANIEL W OWENS  

 Nationality:    African American
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Born in MaIden, MA. B.A. in English from Uni-versity of Massachusetts. Ed.M. from Harvard University School of Education. Part-time lec-turer, University of Massachusetts, in Black Theatre and Playwriting. Teacher at Boston English High School. Resident p

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 Acife And Pendabis         Bargainin' Thing         Box, The         Bus Play and Slipt         Clean         Debts         Emily Tillington         Imitatin' Us, Imitatin' Us, Imitatin' Death         Joined         Lagrima Del Diablo         Little Ham         Michigan, The         Misunderstanding         More You Get, The More You Want, The         Nigger, Nigger, Who's The Bad Nigger         Noirhommes, The         One Shadow Behind         RefUSAl         What Reason Could I Give?         Where Are They ?

Acife And Pendabis

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Afro-American Studio Theater, NY    -

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Bargainin' Thing

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Box, The

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Young Black people trapped in a box gradually recognise their situation and also relise that they must relate to the 'old man' (slave) and must understand his attitudes, which differ from their own.

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New African Co., Boston, Mass    1969

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Allegorical Drama 1 Act

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Bus Play and Slipt

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Dan Owens Company    -

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Clean

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New African Co., Boston, Mass    -

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Debts

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Emily Tillington

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Deals with a young black woman coming to grips with the world and her vision of herself in it

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Emerson College, MA    1973

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One Act

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Imitatin' Us, Imitatin' Us, Imitatin' Death

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Absurdist. Bizarre look at black revolutionaries and the contradictions within the revolutionary strug-gle

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New African Co., Boston, Mass    1970

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One Act

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Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Joined

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A black assassin is out to exterminate a white liberal. Con-flict: Can he go through with one more job?

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People's Theatre, Cambridge, Mass    1970

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MeloDrama One Act

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Lagrima Del Diablo

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Little Ham

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1930s Harlem and the locals unite to kick out the Mafia

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Music by Judd Woldin; Lyrics by Richard Enquist & Judd Woldin; Based on the book by Langston Hughes

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Michigan, The

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Misunderstanding

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The relationship between a black man and his woman and the fact that she does not believe in his dreams

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National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, Mass    1972

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Vignette

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More You Get, The More You Want, The

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Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, NYC    -

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Nigger, Nigger, Who's The Bad Nigger

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Two brothers, one light and one dark, and the class conflict

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New African Co., Boston, Mass    1969

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Noirhommes, The

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One Shadow Behind

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A woman and two men, all sensi-tive and talented, struggle with themselves and each other for self-expression until one dies.

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People's Theater of Cambridge, MA    1974

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Poetic Drama

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RefUSAl

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Concerns the writer and those for whom he is writing-black people or the white critical world's acclaim and acknowledgment.

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National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, Mas    1973

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One Act

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What Reason Could I Give?

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The story of an obsessed, guilty writer who is incapable of experiencing love or creating

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Genre:
Musical Drama Musical

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Where Are They ?

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Entertains the question of what has happened to the revolu-tionary brothers of the 1 960s

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Black students at Yale Drama School, New Haven, Conn    1972

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