Sharon Bridgforth
| Sharon Bridgforth | |
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| Born |
May 15, 1958 Chicago, Illinois |
| Occupation | Writer/Theatre Artist |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Jazz, Blues, African-American and Black Diaspora History, Gender and Sexuality, Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic |
| Notable works | the bull-jean stories, love conjure/blues |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award, Alpert/Hedgebrook Residency Prize |
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Sharon Bridgforth (born May 15, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer working in theater.
Bridgforth was born in Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to South Central Los Angeles when she was 3 years old. She discovered the diversity of the city during her long bus commutes to school.
From 1993 to 1998, Bridgforth worked as the founder, writer, and artistic director of the root wy’mn theatre company. root wy’mn’s touring roster included: the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, The Theater Offensive in Boston, La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
From 2002 to 2009, she served as the anchor artist for the Austin Project, produced by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Her work, "Finding Voice Facilitation Method" was published in Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project edited by Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa L. Moore, and herself.
In 2008, Bridgforth received a National Performance Network Creation Fund award, for delta dandi, co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with the National Performance Network. Freedom Train Productions in New York presented a reading of the work in 2008. A workshop production of the work was produced in 2009 at the Long Center in Austin, Texas.
At Northwestern University, as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation artist-in-residence in the Performance Studies department, Bridgforth presented a workshop production of delta dandi during the 2009 Solo/Black/Woman performance series. Since 2009, Bridgforth has been resident playwright at New Dramatists, New York. Her work blood pudding, was presented in the 2010 New York SummerStage Festival.
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