Sandra Seaton

**Sandra Cecelia Seaton** bụ onye America na-ede egwuregwu na onye na-agụ akwụkwọ .  Ọ natara onyinye Mark Twain n'aka Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature na 2012.   Seaton kụziri ihe okike na akwụkwọ African-American na Central Michigan University maka afọ 15 dị ka prọfesọ Bekee. 

## Ndụ onwe onye
A mụrụ Seaton na Columbia, Tennessee, nye Albert Sampson Browne Jr. na Hattye Evans, ndị nkuzi abụọ.  Mgbe nne na nna Seaton gbara alụkwaghịm, nne ya lụgharịrị di na nwunye ma ezinụlọ ahụ kwagara Chicago's West Side na 1949. Nne nne Seaton, Emma Louish Evans, na-emekarị ihe ngosi minstrel amateur ma nwee mmetụta siri ike na ọrụ nwa nwa ya. Evans nyere Seaton nnukwu nganga na ọrụ Flournoy Miller, onye òtù ezinụlọ, bụ onye dere akwụkwọ maka ndị ọsụ ụzọ niile nwa egwu *Shuffle Along* na 1921.  Seaton gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Farragut High School na Chicago wee nata Bachelor of Arts na Mahadum Illinois Urbana-Champaign na Arts na Letters (Creative Writing). Na Illinois, ya na John Frederick Nims, George Scouffas, na Webster Smalley gụrụ akwụkwọ. O nwetara akara ugo mmụta Master of Arts na ihe okike sitere na Mahadum Michigan State, ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ n'okpuru Linda Wagner-Martin na Robert Martin. Seaton bụkwa onye otu Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Ọ lụrụ James Seaton, onye nkatọ edemede na prọfesọ nke Bekee na Michigan State University ; di na nwunye ahụ nwere ụmụ anọ. 

## Ọrụ
Seaton bụ onye dere ihe nkiri 14, opera librettos, mpempe okwu, na obere akụkọ ifo. Ruby Dee, Adilah Barnes, Kim Staunton, Michele Shay na Linda Gravatt pụtara na mmepụta 1998 nke egwuregwu mbụ ya, *The Bridge Party*, na Mahadum Michigan, ọrụ sitere na ihe omume mpaghara.   Emebere egwuregwu a na *mkpụrụ osisi Strange: Plays on Lynching by American Women* (1998).  Mahadum Michigan State egosipụtala ọrụ agụmagụ Seaton na usoro ihe odide Michigan ha. 

Seaton dere libretto maka solo opera *Site na Diary of Sally Hemings* (2001) maka onye na-ede egwú William Bolcom .  Ọrụ akụkọ ifo bụ ihe ngosi nke echiche dị n'ime Sarah "Sally" Hemings, nwanyị ohu nke agbụrụ agwakọta nke kwenyere na ya na Thomas Jefferson nwere mmekọahụ. Bolcom jụrụ Seaton ka o mepụta ndenye "akwụkwọ akụkọ" nke ga-enye ederede maka okirikiri egwu ya *Site na Diary of Sally Hemings* . Seaton nọrọ ihe karịrị otu afọ na-eme nyocha iji mepụta "akwụkwọ ndekọ" nke ga-abụ ihe ezi uche dị na ya n'akụkọ ihe mere eme. Dị ka David Lewman kwuru na otu isiokwu na Seaton's libretto, "Ọ bụ ihe ịma aka. Ọ bụ ezie na e nwere nnukwu ihe onwunwe na Jefferson na oge ya, ọ dịghị ihe atụ dị ndụ nke ederede Sally Hemings."  Mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar nyere ọrụ ahụ, bụ onye na-abụ abụ na Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Mahadum Musical Society na Ann Arbor, Michigan,  na Herbst Theatre na San Francisco  na ebe ndị ọzọ yiri ya. Na 2010, soprano Alyson Cambridge rụrụ *Site na Diary of Sally Hemings* na Ụlọ Nzukọ Carnegie . 

**Ihe nkiri**

* *Site na akwụkwọ akụkọ nke Sally Hemings*, Ememme Glimmer Glass (2020)
* *Kpọọ m n'aha*, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival (2020)
* *Kpọọ m n'aha*, nke e depụtara na *Nụrụ mkpu ákwá*, (2020)
* *Bluebird mbụ n'ụtụtụ*, (2020)

**Ụdị ndị ọzọ**

* "Egwu abalị" [mkpụmkpụ akụkọ], *Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review* (Winter 1989)
* Eze: Ntụgharị uche na Ndụ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2005). Okwu ekwuru ya na ihe egwu egwu.
* Libretto: *Site na Diary of Sally Hemings*, Egwu sitere na William Bolcom (2000), CD: White Pine Music (2010). Akara: Hal Leonard (2011)
* Libretto: *Agbamakwụkwọ onye anaghị eri anụ*, Egwu sitere n'aka Eric Santos, (2004)
* Libretto: *Njem abalị*, Egwu nke Carlos Simon (2020)
* Libretto: *Bluebird mbụ n'ụtụtụ*, egwu nke Carlos Simon (2020)
* Libretto: *Ọ na-azọ ụkwụ na ọkwa na-ese n'elu mmiri*, aria, egwu nke Carlos Simon (2021)
* Libretto: *Mkpụrụ Obi Kewara*, aria, Egwu nke Carlos Simon (2022)
* Libretto: *Nnụnụ nnupụisi*, aria, Egwu nke Carlos Simon (2022)
* Libretto: *Dreamland: Tulsa 1921*, Ploratorio, Egwu sitere na Marques LA Garrett (2022)

## Ihe nrite

* Ọmụmụ Emma Lou Thornbrough kwa afọ, IUPUI na Mahadum Butler, Nọvemba 2008 
* Onye ode akwụkwọ n'ụlọ obibi, Michigan State University College of Law 2010-11 
* Mark Twain Award sitere na Society maka ọmụmụ akwụkwọ Midwwest. 2012 
* Theodore Ward Prize 
* Ebe obibi: Yaddo  na Ragdale  ndị na-ese ihe.

## Ntụaka
Webster Smalley gụrụ akwụkwọ. O nwetara akara ugo mmụta Master of Arts na ihe okike sitere na Mahadum Michigan State, ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ n'okpuru Linda Wagner-Martin na Robert Martin. Seaton bụkwa onye otu Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Òtù:Mmadụ ndi di ndụ