Ọtụtụ mgbe Mitchell

**James Loften Mitchell** (Eprel 15, 1919 – Mee 14, 2001) bụ onye America na-ede egwuregwu na onye ọkọ akụkọ ihe nkiri bụ onye so na ngagharị ihe nkiri ojii America nke 1960s.

## Ndụ na ọrụ
A mụrụ Mitchell na Columbus, North Carolina, sitere na ezinụlọ ndị America America, wee kwaga dịka nwata ya na nne na nna ya na Harlem . Dị ka nwa akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ malitere ime na ide ihe ngosi ihe nkiri, wee sonye na ndị egwuregwu Rose McClendon . Ọ zutere ndị na-eme ihe nkiri dị ka Ethel Waters na George Wiltshire, wee hụ ịkpa ókè agbụrụ na mbụ na ndụ ya kwa ụbọchị. N'ihi ya, o kpebiri ịrụ ọrụ n'igosipụta ihe oyiyi dị mma nke ndị ojii, na inye ohere ọrụ ka mma, na ihe nkiri. Ọ gara City College of New York wee nweta akwụkwọ mmụta ịga Ụlọ Akwụkwọ Talladega na Alabama, bụ ebe o dere akwụkwọ nke mechara bụrụ ihe ndabere nke akwụkwọ 1967 ya, *Black Drama: Akụkọ nke American Negro na Ụlọ ihe nkiri* .   Ọ lụrụ Helen Marsh na 1943; ha mụrụ ụmụ nwoke abụọ, ma mesịa gbaa alụkwaghịm. 

Mgbe ọ jere ozi afọ abụọ na US Naval Reserve na Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, ọ laghachiri Harlem ma guzobe otu ụlọ ihe nkiri, 115th Street People's Theatre, na-etinye egwuregwu mbụ ya, *Blood in the Night*, na 1946. Ọ ghọrọ nwa akwụkwọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Columbia n'etiti 1947 na 1951, na-agụ akwụkwọ egwuregwu, ebe ọ na-arụkwa ọrụ dị ka onye nyocha maka ngalaba ọdịmma.  Emepụtara egwuregwu ya *The Bancroft Dynasty* maka ụlọ ihe nkiri ndị mmadụ na 1948. Otu ụlọ ihe nkiri ahụ wee ghọọ Harlem Showcase Theatre, bụ nke gosipụtara Mitchell's *The Shame of the Nation* na 1952, dabere na ikpe mmeko nwoke a ma ama, na-esote egwuregwu ya *The Cellar* na *City Called Norfolk* .  

Site na 1950 ruo 1962, Mitchell dere, ma mee ihe na, *The Later Years*, ihe omume redio na ọdụ New York WNYC . Egwuregwu ya na 1957 *A Land Beyond the River* bụ mgbanwe akụkọ ifo nke ndụ onye nkuzi na pastọ Joseph DeLaine, onye ikpe ya nyere aka kwụsị nkewa n'ụlọ akwụkwọ ọha na US. Egwuregwu ahụ nwere ogologo ọsọ na-apụ na Broadway ma mesịa bipụta ya dị ka akwụkwọ.   Mitchell meriri otu Guggenheim Fellowship na 1958.  N'afọ 1960, o wepụtara egwuregwu atọ ahụ, *Star of the Morning,* bụ nke o dere edemede na egwu, nke Romare Bearden na Clyde Fox dere egwu.  

Mitchell dekwara *gwa Fero*, nke ndị odide ahụ na-atụgharị uche na mmalite Africa na ahụmahụ ha site na ịgba ohu nke òtù ndị ruuru obodo ; na, ya na Irving Burgie, dere *Ballad maka Bimshire*, ihe egwu na-apụ apụ na Broadway. Site na 1971 ọ bụ prọfesọ na Mahadum steeti New York na Binghamton .  E bipụtara akwụkwọ akụkọ ya, *The Stubborn Old Lady Who Resisted Change* na 1973, ma dezie *Voices of the Black Theatre* (1975). 

N'afọ 1976, a họpụtara Mitchell maka ihe nrite Tony maka revue, *Bubbling Brown Sugar* . Emebere ya na New York na London, ebe ahọpụtara ya maka onyinye Laurence Olivier .   Egwuregwu egwu 1983 ya, *Miss Waters, To You*, dabere na ndụ onye na-eme ihe nkiri na onye na-agụ egwú Ethel Waters. 

Mitchell lụrụ ọzọ na 1991, na Gloria Anderson.  Ọ nwụrụ na Queens, New York, na Mee 14, 2001, dị afọ 82.  

## Ntụaka
nwa akwụkwọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Columbia n'etiti 1947 na 1951, na-agụ toMitchell dere, ma mee ihe na, ndị mmadụ na 1948. Otu ụlọ ihe nkiri ahụ wee

## Njikọ mpụga

* https://archivesspace.binghamton.edu/public/repositories/2/resources/27 Ihe enyemaka ịchọta mkpokọta Loften Mitchell, ọba akwụkwọ mahadum Binghamton