The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ed Bullins

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ed Bullins

4/21/2005

Playwright Ed Bullins (1935 - ) began his professional playwriting career in 1965 with the production of, "How Do You Do," "Dialect Determinism (or The Rally)," and, "Clara's Ole Man," at the Firehouse Repertory Theatre in San Francisco. He later became the Resident Playwright and Associate Director at Robert Macbeth's New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, New York, where he headed the Black Theatre Workshop. Bullins was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/21/2005, in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 18m 03s

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African American playwright Ed Bullins, who began writing plays as a political activist in the mid-1960s and was later the associate director of Harlem's New Lafayette Theatre, helped shape the revolutionary theater of black experience. "Ed Bullins." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed November 2009). From the guide to the It Bees Dat Way (a C...