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Brown University Professor and UCSD Alumnus to Speak Tuesday
Carolyn Passeneau | February 12, 2007
A distinguished visiting scholar on black theatre and UCSD alumnus will speak and answer questions at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the theatre and dance department's 157 Galbraith Theatre.
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Professor Elmo Terry-Morgan |
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Elmo Terry-Morgan (MFA, 1978) is associate professor of Africana studies and theatre and performance studies and artistic director of Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University. He also is on the faculty of the new Brown/Trinity Repertory Graduate Program in Theater Arts. Terry-Morgan's areas of specialization are African-American theatre, African-American folk traditions and cultural expressions and playwriting. He has served as managing editor for the Black Theatre Network News. Before coming to Brown, Professor Terry-Morgan was a long time associate director and playwright at the National Black Theatre of Harlem, N.Y. He also served as writer and director of the AUDELCO Awards show, the Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, in New York City, for 10 years.
His other on-going research focuses on the development of a black gay and lesbian theatre. His course, Black Lavender, was jointly designed by Brown students in an Odyssey Seminar, and continues to receive significant student research input and support from colleagues in the nation. Professor Terry-Morgan has received numerous awards as an advisor and mentor: since 1993, twenty-three of his students received awards in the S. Randolph Edmonds Young Scholars Competition.
Among his most recent works, “Heart to Heart: Ain't Your Life Worth Saving?” is a play about heart disease among women of African descent and was commissioned by the American Heart Association/Rhode Island and Lifespan Hospitals. His current project is the continued development of the musical drama, “Ophelia's Cotillion,” about turn of the century Black aristocrats in Philadelphia.
His plays have won numerous AUDELCO Awards, which include “The Fruits of Miss Morning” and the musical “Song of Sheba,” which was telecast on NHK-TV Japan in 1991 and toured Japan in 1992. His article "Call and Response: The Making of the African Grove Institute for the Arts" is the anchor article in “Black Theatre's Unprecedented Times,” a publication chronicling the development of the AGIA Movement spearheaded by noted playwright August Wilson. |
