Author: Carolyn Nur Wistrand
Alternate names: Nur
Title: Playwright, Lecturer in African American Theatre and African Traditional Performance
Born: New Orleans, Louisiana
Bio: Carolyn Nur Wistrand's plays have been developed and staged in New York City with The Negro Ensemble Company (RISING, MAGDALENA’S CROSSING); New Perspectives (9 STEPS FROM ST. ANNE’S STREET); Love Creek Productions & Open Eye (SECOND COMING); Los Angeles: Bilingual Foundation for the Arts (VIRGINS OF GUADALUPE); Chicago: ICWP (THE GAMBLER’S EARRINGS). Awards in playwriting include: 2012 (MACA/NEA) & 2011: Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting, Castillo theatre, New York City (RISING), 2010: Finalist, Echo Theatre’s National Women’s Playwriting Competition, Dallas, Texas (THE GAMBLER’S EARRINGS), 2009: Virtual Theatre, Los Angeles (THE GAMBLER'S EARRINGS). For the African Writer’s Series, she adapted Chris Abani's Graceland as a community performance piece, Nawal El Saadawi's novel, Woman at Point Zero and poetry of the late South African political activist, Dennis Brutus. Published plays: Africa World Press (Beauty in Black Performance), One Act Play Depot, Canada (Ida B. and the Lynching Tree, Second Coming, Mean Molly), Carmel Publishers, India (Tahirih). Carolyn is an Adjunct Professor, English Dept. at Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana as well as an Online Faculty Member in the Dept. of Africana Studies, UM-Flint. Her work is concerned with time, past/present/future in the shaping of feminine consciousness.