Paul Carter Harrison - Writer

Paul Carter Harrison is an award winning playwright/director/theatre theorist whose work has been produced and published in both Europe and the United States. He has had a long artistic association, as writer/director, with the Negro Ensemble Company which had produced his earlier plays, TOPHAT, ABERCROMBIE APOCALYPSE, and the celebrated GREAT MACDADDY which won an an Obie Award. Other significant plays include the ritual-drama AMERI/CAIN GOTHIC, the multi-media musical DEATH OF BOOGIE WOOGIE, and the Audelco Award winning musical-drama, TABERNACLE. As dramaturg/director, he has developed such distinguished works as AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH, LADY DAY: A MUSICAL TRAGEDY, and the Audelco Award winning TRIAL OF ONE SHORT-SIGHTED BLACK WOMAN VS. MAMMY LOUISE AND SAFREETA MAE. The recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for American Playwriting, a National Endowment of the Arts Playwrights Fellowship, and two Meet-the Composer/Reader¹s Digest Commission, he is also the author of the The Drama of Nommo, a collection of essays that has been a seminal influence in the exploration of ritual stylization for many contemporary playwrights and directors in Black Theatre practice.