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BOOKS
My Confederate Kinfolk, Basic Books Civitas, 2006
Amistad, libretto, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1997
Maker of Saints, a novel, Scribner, 1996
Book-of-the-Month Club selection; 1997 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Malcolm X: The Great Photographs, Stewart,Tabori & Chang, 1993
Book-of-the-Month Club selection; American Institute of Graphic Arts Award
1959, a novel, Grove Weidenfeld, 1992
Book-of-the-Month Club featured alternate; LA Times Book Award nominee; American Library Association Book of the Year
nominee
Playing the Changes, poetry, Wesleyan University Press, 1985
X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, libretto, Nani Press, 1986
All the Renegade Ghosts Rise, poetry, Anemone Press, 1978
Poetry, plays, and articles in over 30 anthologies.
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FILM
Maker of Saints, Co-producer, Screenwriter, DCI Productions,
2010
Paid in Full, Miramax, 2002, Screenwriter
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PLAYS
The Sojourner Truth Washing Society, work-in-progress, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk, Adaptation for Five Actors, National Black Arts
Festival, 2003
Everybody's Ruby: Story of a Murder in Florida, Kenny Leon, director, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1999
Ava & Cat in Mexico, Staged Reading, McCarter Theater, Princeton, 1994
Adaptation, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, George C. Wolfe, director, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1990
Paint, Staged Reading, Basement Workshop, New York, 1982
Shadow & Veil, w/ Ntozake Shange, Jessica Hagedorn, Laurie Carlos, et. al., New Heritage Theater, New York, 1982
Sweet Talk and Stray Desires, one-woman show, Chelsea Westside Theater Center, New York, 1979
Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon, w/ Shange &Hagedorn, Oz Scott, director, NY Shakespeare Festival, 1977
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MUSICAL WORKS
Dark Passages, text, multimedia documentary oratoria on the internment of Japanese Americans, Miya Masaoka, composer. String
quartet, samples, Buddhist chants, testimony from former internees and resisters, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1998.
Amistad, an opera, libretto, Anthony Davis, composer, full length work for orchestra and double chorus, George C. Wolfe,
director, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, World Premiere, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1997
A Woman Unadorned, text, Bernadette Speach, composer, 30 minute work, piano & spoken word, Lincoln Center, 1994
Baobab Four, text, Bernadette Speach, composer, 30 minute work for six musicians and two voices, P.S. 122, 1994
The E. & O. Line, an electronic opera, libretto, Anne LeBaron, composer, full length work, University of the District
of Columbia; Carter Barron Amphitheater, D.C., 1989
X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an opera, libretto, Anthony Davis, composer, full length opera, commissioned by The
Kitchen (NYC), World Premiere, New York City Opera, 1986
X-cerpts, A. Davis, composer, full length work for chamber orchestra and four singers, San Francisco Arts Festival, 1987
Steppin' Other Shores, text, Joseph Jarman, composer, full length work, music, spoken word & dance, New Music America;The
Kitchen, 1983
See Tee's New Blues, full length work, spoken word & piano, Anthony Davis, composer, The Kitchen, 1982
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DOCUMENTARIES & RECORDINGS
I'll Make Me a World: Black Creative Minds in the 20th Century,
Concept Originator & Story Editor, Blackside, PBS series, 1999, winner of a George Foster Peabody award
W. E. B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices, Writer & Narrator, Louis Massiah, producer & director, Toronto Film
Festival; PBS, 1996
Thulani Davis Asks, 'Why Howard Beach?' writer & narrator, Paper Tiger TV, 1987; American Film Institute Video Festival,1987; First
Place, Howard University Communications Awards, 1988
Thulani, writer & subject, Doris Chase, producer & director, 1984; Berlin Festival, 1986; Real Art Ways Video
Festival, Special Award,1985
Reflections, by Bernadette Speach, composer, spoken word performance, Mode Records, 2002
The Musical Railism of Anne LeBaron, lyrics, Mode Records, 1998
Songposts, Vol. 1, lyrics, Anne LeBaron, composer, Word of Mouth Music, 1991
Without Borders, by Bernadette Speach, composer, spoken word performance, Mode Records, 1989
Fanfare for the Warriors, four-part radio documentary, co-producer, scriptwriter, NPR,1985, First Place in Radio, National
Association of Black Journalists
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HONORS
Inaugural Fellow, The Leon Levy Center for Biography, City University of New York Graduate Center, 2008-2009
Fellow,
The Newington-Cropsey Foundation Academy of Art, 2007-2008
Fellow, The Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of the City
of New York at Columbia University, 2003-2004
Declared an Admiral of The Great Navy of the State of Nebraska by the Governor of Nebraska, 2004
The New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women, First Annual Legacies Award, for Achieving Unparalled Excellence in
the Arts, 2003
Induction in the Black Writers Hall of Fame, 1998
The Ralph Metcalfe Chair, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1998
The Paul Robeson Cultural Democracy Award, The Chicago Center for Arts Policy, 1998
David Randolph Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, The New School, NY, 1998
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Artist-in-residence, 1996
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award, 1996-1999
PEW National Theatre Artist Residency Grant, 1993-95
Grammy Award, Best Album Notes, Aretha Franklin, "The Atlantic Recordings", 1993, First woman to win in category
Grammy Nomination, Best New Work, Classical, "X, The Life & Times...," 1993
Chicago Humanities Festival Award, 1992
New York Foundation for the Arts, The Gregory Millard Fellowship Award, Fiction, 1988
Manhattan Borough President's Awards, Excellence in the Arts &Literature, 1987
New York State Council on the Arts, Writer in Residency Award, 1987
The Fannie Lou Hamer Award, Medgar Evers College, Women's Center, 1987
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