The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Lynn Nottage

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Lynn Nottage

12/5/2005

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.252

Playwright Lynn Nottage (1964 - ) has written several highly successful plays, including, "Crumbs from the Table of Joy," in 1996. In 2003, her drama, "Intimate Apparel," a play about an African American seamstress in turn of the century New York, won major awards including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Nottage was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/5/2005, in Brooklyn, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 3; Total Run Time: 01h 24m 44s

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Playwright Lynn Nottage was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1964. At age eight, she had already written her first play. Her inspiration came from the women in her family. Her grandmother, mother, and other women were the nurses, teachers, activists and artists in the Brooklyn neighborhood where she grew up. Nottage is a graduate of New York's High School of Music and Art in Harlem where she earned her high school diploma in 1982. That same year, she enrolled at Brown University where she received ...