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The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.SuzanLori Parks
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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.SuzanLori Parks
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Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter, and author. In 2010, she received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as a "Genius Grant." Parks is the recipient of the 2006 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship for Playwriting, a 2006 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a 2006-2007 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, a 2005 American Academy of Arts & Letters fellowship for playwriting, and a 2003 Dramatists Guild fellowship. In 2007 she received the 2007 National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush
In 2009, she was named as one of the inaugural recipients of the Helen Hayes Award for Excellence in Playwriting from the American Theatre Wing. In 2011 Parks received The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Playwriting. Parks has been a resident playwright at The Public Theater in New York City since 1995 and has been a member of their company faculty since 1995.
She is also an alumni fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Parks has written ten plays: Devil Comes to Harlem (2005), Topdog/Underdog (2005), Topdog/Underdog (2006), Topdog/Underdog (2007), Topdog/Underdog (2008), Topdog/Underdog (2009), Topdog/Underdog (2010), Topdog/Underdog (2011), and Topdog/Underdog (2012). Her plays have been presented widely both in the United States and internationally and have been translated into twelve languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The first four plays were produced by The Public Theater; her fifth play was produced by Yale Repertory Theatre; her sixth play was produced by Trinity Repertory Company; her seventh play was produced by Roundabout Theatre Company; her eighth play was produced by MCC Theater; her ninth play was produced by Atlantic Theater Company; and her tenth play was produced by Court Theatre of St.
Petersburg . The first four plays were produced at The Public Theater; her fifth through eighth plays were produced at Yale Rep; and her tenth through twelfth plays were produced at Court Theatre . Parks' work has been featured on PBS' Writers on Writing with David Ebershoff , A&E's Biography , NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross , The Writer's Almanac