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BIO

Laurie Carlos is a dynamic, OBIE Award-winning actress who created the role of Lady in Blue in Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf"; an inventive, two-time BESSIE Award-winning choreographer (for "White Chocolate" and "Heat") whose work with the Urban Bush Women is the stuff of performance legend; and a unique director, who has helmed the premieres of new work by such award-winning writers as Sharon Bridgforth, Carl Hancock Rux, Luis Alfaro, Rebecca Rice and Daniel Alexander Jones.

Laurie, Robbie McCauley and Jessica Hagedorn formed the performance group "Thought Music" in the mid-1980's producing the revolutionary performance work "Teenytown".

Laurie is the co-artistic director with Marlies Yearby of "Movin Spirits Dance Theatre Company". Laurie is currently Artistic Fellow at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota--the U.S.'s largest, longest-running African-American Theatre--where she curates the celebrated performance series "Non-English Speaking Spoken Here" and where she is literary manager for the Cornerstone Play Development Project. Laurie is also a current board chair at The Jemome Foundation.

Her many grants and awards include: The New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Theatre Communications Group and The McKnight Foundation.

RESUME

WHITE CHOCOLATE:

(writer, director & performer) Penumbra Theatre, Walker Art Center, BACA Downtown, P.S. 122, Kings Art Complex, Scottsdale Cultural Arts Center

PERSIMMON PEEL:

(writer/performer) Walker Art Center, The Anchorage, National Black Theatre Festival

PRAISE HOUSE:

(performer & dramaturg) Jacob's Pillow, Spoleto USA, BAM

FEATHERS AT THE FLAME:

(writer) Tribeca Performing Arts Center

DIRECTING:

Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre

CON FLAMA, ALASKAN HEAT-BLUE DOT, BLOOD PUDDING, CLAYANGELS

Penumbra Theatre Company

MOJO & THE SAYSO, A PHOTGRAPH: LOVERS IN MOTION, GENEVA COTTRELL...WAITING FOR THE DOG TO DIE

Intermedia Arts

MIGHTY REAL

Three Legged Race

STRAIGHT AS A LINE

ACTING:

Guthrie Theatre

BIG WHITE FOG, DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH

Penumbra Theatre Company

TALKING BONES, SEVEN GUITARS

Broadway

FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF

AWARDS & HONORS

OBIE AWARD--For Colored Girls...;BESSIE AWARD--Heat, White Chocolate; NEA GRANT; TCG/PEW National Artist Residency; NYFA GRANT; McKNIGHT GRANT

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