Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Gloria J. Browne is a playwright, author, professor, and social justice attorney. She attended Sarah Lawrence MFA playwright program and was featured in the alumni magazine. Her award-winning plays “Dreams of Emmett Till” and “SHOT: Caught a Soul” speak to our criminal in/justice system. “SHOT” was published by TRW. “My Juilliard” and “Crossroads” explore ambition and generational race relations.
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Gloria J. Browne is a playwright, author, professor, and social justice attorney. She attended Sarah Lawrence MFA playwright program and was featured in the alumni magazine. Her award-winning plays “Dreams of Emmett Till” and “SHOT: Caught a Soul” speak to our criminal in/justice system. “SHOT” was published by TRW. “My Juilliard” and “Crossroads” explore ambition and generational race relations.

Her work has been produced in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge, LA. Greatly influenced by James Baldwin, she writes books, essays, and movies, as well. Gloria received the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Award, the Wiley College (Texas) Woman of Excellence Award, the NAACP Trailblazer Award, and many other commendations. She lives in New York City.

Plays

  • My Juilliard by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: drama, melodrama
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    Keyword: Alzheimer's Disease, African American + 2 more
    Genre: drama, melodrama
    Keyword: Alzheimer's Disease, African American, teenage girls, Medea
    Grace, once a gifted pianist, is struggling with dementia. Deborah, a writer, needs to know about her dead father before Grace, her mother, falls prey to this debilitating disease. While Caroline, Deborah's teen daughter has the gift of music she is riddled with doubt about her future as an artist. A family secret haunts Grace as they all run out of time. Three generations of artists must face the truth....
    Grace, once a gifted pianist, is struggling with dementia. Deborah, a writer, needs to know about her dead father before Grace, her mother, falls prey to this debilitating disease. While Caroline, Deborah's teen daughter has the gift of music she is riddled with doubt about her future as an artist. A family secret haunts Grace as they all run out of time. Three generations of artists must face the truth.

    (Published in book "The African-American Woman: 400 Years of Perseverance")
  • Killing Me Softly by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Murder-mystery
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, horror, mystery/thriller, political, radio drama
    Keyword: Murder-mystery
    A Murder Mystery in two acts set in 1980s. The ambitious hard-driven civil rights attorney John Power wants his son John Jr. to be mayor of Kansas City, MO. When John Power, Sr. dies suddenly of rat poison everyone in his law office becomes a suspect. Attorney turned amateur detective Rita Davis must discover 'who did it' before the town erupts in violence.
  • Waverly Place by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
    Recommendations: 3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: barbershop, urban + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: barbershop, urban, ghost story, urban
    Pops the barber is the central character in this one-manshow with characters moving through this urban ghost story set in a busy barbershop early Saturday morning.