Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the leading Black American playwrights, the author of The America Play, Venus, and In the Blood, one of her two Red Letter Plays. All are available from NHB. Winner of the 1990 Off-Broadway Obie Award for Best New American Play, she is currently head of the A.S.K. Theater Projects Writing for Performance Programme at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
Suzan-Lori Parks has 'burst though every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way' New York Observer