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    Class Reunion and Other Plays

    Kermit Frazier
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    Collection Description

    Five provocative and surprising one-act plays about all manner of need, love, and survival.

    Plays in This Collection

    • Dinah Washington is Dead
    • Class Reunion
    • The Exterminator
    • A Bird's Eye View
    • Else
    Categories: The Plays, Newly Published, Collections Tags: African American
    • Reviews
    • About the Author(s)
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    • Special Notes

    Press Quotes

    “Kermit Frazier is one of the most underrated, under-the-radar African American playwrights of his generation … [His] plays are both lyrical and richly theatrical. And while they typically deal unflinchingly with the landscape of African American life and the socio-political issues of that life, the scope of his work ranges far beyond that culture.” —Woodie King, Jr., Producing Director, New Federal Theatre

    DINAH WASHINGTON IS DEAD
    Two Black Air Force officers struggle to cope with isolation and longing in West Texas.

    “Frazier has a perceptive feel for the rhythms of battle between lovers … This is a beautifully shaped play …” —Damien Jaques, Milwaukee Journal

    CLASS REUNION
    Three Black former high school classmates meet in a mind-twisting, revelatory reunion.

    “… [a] relentlessly haunting piece of writing … a bizarrely beautiful work that, like life, is better equipped with questions than with answers.” —Joseph Hurley, Other Stages

    THE EXTERMINATOR
    An elderly white woman strives to survive through memory, hope, and strange visitations in a seemingly contentious urban landscape.

    A BIRD’S EYE VIEW
    Two Black male figures search for purpose and companionship in a disruptive, destructive, principally white world.

    ELSE
    In the frightening, chaotic early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Black mother and daughter come together both to grieve and to search for reconciliation.

    Author(s)

    • Kermit Frazier

      Kermit Frazier has been a writer — especially playwright and television writer — as well as a teacher of writing, literature, and theater for more than 40 years. His latest play, MODERN MINSTRELSY, was a finalist (60 plays out of 1,450 submissions) for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Another new play, FIREPOWER, premiered at the Detroit Repertory Theater in 2017. Plays produced in New York include KERNEL OF SANITY, SHADOWS AND ECHOES, OUTSIDE THE RADIO, DINAH WASHINGTON IS DEAD, and CLASS REUNION. Those produced around country include LEGACIES, SACRED PLACES, INTERSTICES, AN AMERICAN JOURNEY (commissioned by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater), DREAM KING (commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage), and SMOLDERING FIRES (commissioned by First Stage Children's Theater). Also, LITTLE ROCK, a rock'n'roll musical inspired by events surrounding the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, which was commissioned by the Seattle Children's Theatre and performed in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, and Little Rock. He has also been commissioned to write living history plays for the Baltimore City Life Museum and the Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. As a television writer, his series include the popular children's mystery series Ghostwriter (which he helped to create and was a head writer), Gullah Gullah Island (co-producer and executive story editor), Married People, True Colors, All My Children, The Misadventures of Maya and Miguel, The Magic School Bus, and The Wonder Pets. His articles, reviews, and short stories have appeared such magazines and journals as Green Mountains Review, The Chicago Review, American Theatre, Black World, Essence, and The New York Times Book Review. "Drive," the first chapter of his memoir, Piecing the Puzzle: Coming of Age in Anacostia, was published in Callaloo. Another chapter, “Snow,” was a runner-up in a 2018 national essay contest and was recently published in The Missouri Review. His play SMOLDERING FIRES is published by Dramatic Publishing. Four other plays have been published by Broadway Play Publishing: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, LEGACIES, KERNEL OF SANITY, and FIREPOWER. He has taught writing and literature at Syracuse, Chicago State, and Morgan State Universities, Baruch and Williams Colleges, and the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, where he also served as acting president. He has also taught playwriting and acting in Maryland public and private schools (through a program he helped develop at Center Stage in Baltimore) and in New York City area public schools through the Lincoln Center Institute. He has been a writer-in-residence at Williams College and at the Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. A recipient of a McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting, Mr. Frazier has also twice had a play workshopped at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He has had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, Yaddo, Millay, Norton Island, and the Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy. A member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatist Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mr. Frazier received his B.A. and M.A. in English from Syracuse University and his M.F.A. in acting from the New York University School of the Arts Theater Program. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Adelphi University, where he taught for thirteen years in the MFA program in creative writing.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
    Publication Date 10/10/2022
    Pages 120
    ISBN 9780881459463

    Special Notes

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    Class Reunion and Other Plays is produced
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