A New Wave of Black Women Playwrights Is Reinventing the Genre

Their work is, quite literally, changing the face of American theater

Brittani Samuel
ZORA
Published in
9 min readAug 30, 2019

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Dominique Morisseau attends the 73rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 09, 2019 in New York City. Photo: Sean Zanni / Patrick McMullan /Getty Images

TThe art of theater dates back millennia and there is no denying who its original titans were. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides — the trio known as the Greek tragedians — were all reverers of Dionysus, an ancient god of theater, wine, and…

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Brittani Samuel
ZORA
Writer for

Art addict. Bylines at VICE, American Theatre, OkayAfrica, IAM&Co and a few other places on the Internet. Mktg at Signature Theatre. NYC | @brittaniidiannee