Woodie King, Jr.

Woodie King, Jr, born 27 July 1937 in Baldwin Springs, Alabama, United States,cite web |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=446&category=ArtMakers&occupation=Theater%20Founder%20%26%20Director&name=Woodie%20King%2C%20Jr. |title=Woodie King, Jr. Biography |format= |work=The HistoryMakers |accessdate=2008-08-07] is a renowned African-American director and producer of stage and screen, as well as the founding director of the New Federal Theater in New York, New York, United States.cite web |url=http://www.newfederaltheatre.org/aboutus.htm |title=New Federal Theatre - About Us |format= |work=New Federal Theater |accessdate=2008-08-07]

Early life

King was born in Alabama. He graduated high school in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and worked at the Ford Motor Company there for three years. He then worked for the City of Detroit as a draftsman. He founded the New Federal Theater in 1970.

Film and Stage Direction

King has a long list of credits in film and stage direction and production.

Co-Produced Plays

"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
"What the Wine Sellers Buy"
"Reggae"
"The Taking of Miss Janie", which earned the Drama Critic Circle Award

Al Pacino Moment

He appears with the actor in the party scene of the film "Serpico".

Awards and Recognition

1985 Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for "Appear and Shoe Cause"
1988 NAACP Image Award for directing "Checkmates" at the Inner City Cultural Center
1993 AUDELCO awards for Best Director and Best Play for "Robert Johnson: Trick The Devil"
1997 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement
2003 Paul Robeson Award
2005 Rosetta LeNoire Award

Works

*cite book |author=Woodie King, Earl Anthony |title=Black Poets and Prophets: The Theory, Practice, and Esthetics of the Pan-Africanist Revolution |publisher=New American Library |location=New York |year=1972 |pages= |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Woodie King |title=The Forerunners: Black Poets in America |publisher=Howard University Press |location=Washington, D.C |year=1981 |pages= |isbn=0-88258-093-0 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Woodie King |title=Black Theatre: Present Condition |publisher=National Black Theatre Touring Circuit |location=New York |year=1981 |pages= |isbn=0-89062-133-0 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Ron Milner; Woodie King |title=Black Drama Anthology |publisher=New American Library |location=New York |year=1986 |pages= |isbn=0-452-00902-2 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Woodie King |title=New Plays for the Black Theatre |publisher=Third World Press |location=Chicago |year=1989 |pages= |isbn=0-88378-124-7 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Woodie King |title=The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters |publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers |location= |year=1996 |pages= |isbn=1-55783-219-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Woodie King Jr |title=Voices of Color: 50 Scenes and Monologues by African American Playwrights (Applause Acting Series) |publisher=Applause Books |location=New York |year=2000 |pages= |isbn=1-55783-174-2 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Woodie King Jr |title=The Impact of Race |publisher=Applause Books |location=New York |year=2004 |pages= |isbn=1-55783-579-9 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=Chuck Smith; Woodie King; Leslie Lee; Mark Clayton Southers; Kim Euell; Lisa Ebright |title=Best Black Plays: the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting |publisher=Northwestern University Press |location=Evanston, Ill |year=2007 |pages= |isbn=0-8101-2390-8 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=

References

External links

* [http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=446&category=ArtMakers&occupation=Theater%20Founder%20%26%20Director&name=Woodie%20King%2C%20Jr. Historymakers Biography]
* [http://www.newfederaltheatre.org/aboutus.htm The New Federal Theater in New York]
* [http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/EquityAwards/lenoire_award2005.asp Rosetta LeNoire Award]