Vinie Burrows

Vinie Burrows is an award-winning Broadway actress.

She has been active at the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the issues of the status of women and Southern Africa. [ Boston Social Forum, July 2004 (see External Links)]

In 1959, a Vinie Burrows, possibly identical, commissioned the work of black composer Ulysses Simpson Kay. [http://www.cbmr.org/pubs/kay.htm]

Burrows won the Paul Robeson Award in 1986.

She was to appear in a show titled "Sister! Sister!" at the University of Delaware in Newark in November 1991. [http://www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/92/9/13.html]

She was to be a panelist in the 2000-2001 African Diaspora lecture series at the Center for Ideas and Society in Riverside, California. [http://www.ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fordgrant0001_lect.htm]

She was to appear in a reprise of the show titled "Sister! Sister!" at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center in March 2001. [http://my.brandeis.edu/news/item?news_item_id=100076&show_release_date=1]

The Black Theater Guild at Massachusetts Institute of Technology expected to host Burrows for lunch in February 2003. [http://web.mit.edu/bsu/www/meetingnotes/gbm%231notes.htm]

She played the role of Barbara Scarlatti in "Bel Canto" in September 2003 on stage in Atlanta, Georgia. [http://www.theaterreview.com/index.php3?maindata=proddetail&productionurl=783]

She was due to appear in a show titled "Black on the Great White Way: The Story of Rose McClendon" at the University of Iowa in March 2007. [http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/events/2007/03/8burrows.shtml]

External links

* [http://www.vinieburrows.com/]
* [http://www.bostonsocialforum.org/tracks/womens/tribunal.html Boston Social Forum, July 2004]

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