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Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Southside, Chicago. Her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, opened in March 1959 and made history by being the first play written by a female black author to be staged on Broadway and won the New York Critics' Circle Award. Her career was cut short by her death when she was only 34. Isaiah Matthew Wooden is Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College, USA, and a director, dramaturg, and critic. His research and teaching focuses on 20th and 21st century African-American art, drama and performance. Wooden is the author of Reclaiming Time: Race, Temporality, and Black Expressive Culture (2025) and co-editor of August Wilson in Context (2025) and Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theater, Performance and Collaboration (2020). |
