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“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”—Tony Kushner
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the ‘weather.’ It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life.”—Suzan-Lori Parks
On November 13, 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks got an idea to write a play every day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The result is an extraordinary testament to artistic commitment. This collection of 365 impeccably crafted pieces, each with its own distinctive characters and dramatic power, is a complete work by an artist responding to her world, each and every day. Parks is one of the American theater’s most wily and innovative writers, and her “stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous” (TIME).
1. Yes, my hair is real—I grew it myself.
2. I went to secretarial school to learn how to type.
3. I'm a yoga devotee.
More about Parks:
Her first feature film was 1996's Girl 6, directed by Spike Lee.
She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, blues musician Paul Scher, and their pit bull, Lambchop.
Anonymous
Posted December 24, 2006
This is an innovative, intimate, lumen to a writers personal daily offering. Suzan-lori Parks has written a play a day for a year totaling over 365 works ( on some days she wrote more then one). Each play or playlet is of gem quality and despite their brief duration, some less than a page, are nevertheless complete works. It is the distilled, no frills quality of these plays that bring the nectar sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter. Well worth reading or performing as can be attested by the numerous actors and production companies now involved with the national premier of these plays. Over seven hundred theatre companies in 15 different cities have come on board for the production. A great addition to a library of classic, enduring work
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“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”—Tony Kushner
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being committed to the artistic process every single day, regardless of the ‘weather.’ It became a daily meditation, a daily prayer celebrating the rich and strange process of a writing life.”—Suzan-Lori Parks
On November 13, ...