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Additional authors

1. Orlandersmith, Dael
2. Winer, Linda
3. Robins, Isobel
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Mayleas, Ruth
6. Corwin, Betty L
7. Isaacson, Robert
8. Malone, Audra D
9. Walker, Adam
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer
11. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Playwright Dael Orlandersmith discusses her career with Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer. The focus of the conversation is her recently produced play Yellowman and the controversy it engendered, but Orlandersmith also discusses her early career as an actor, her frustration with the limited range of roles she was offered, her decision to pursue playwriting, and some of the writers whose work she admires.

Series statement

1. Women in theatre

Alternative title

1. Dialogues with Notable Women in American Theatre

Subject

1. African American theater > New York (State) > New York
2. Theater > New York (State) > New York
3. African American actresses > Interviews
4. Women dramatists, American
5. African American women dramatists > Interviews
6. Orlandersmith, Dael > Yellowman
7. Interviews
8. African Americans in the performing arts
9. Television
10. Dramatists > Interviews
11. Women in the theater
12. Orlandersmith, Dael > Interviews
13. Talk shows

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Television.
3. Talk shows.

Call number

1. NCOX 1965

Note

1. Credits at end of tape.

Credits (note)

1. Production manager, Adam Walker.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, April 18, 2003.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Women in theatre. Dael Orlandersmith [videorecording] / Produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins and Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.

Imprint

1. New York, c2003.

Series

1. Women in theatre

Credits

1. Production manager, Adam Walker.

Performer

1. Interviewer: Linda Winer.

Event

1. Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, April 18, 2003.

Local note

1. Gift of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Orlandersmith, Dael, interviewee.
2. Winer, Linda, interviewer.
3. Robins, Isobel, producer.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, producer.
5. Mayleas, Ruth, producer.
6. Corwin, Betty L, producer.
7. Isaacson, Robert, producer.
8. Malone, Audra D, director.
9. Walker, Adam, production manager.
10. League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
11. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
12. League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
13. CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 1965