Katie Hae Leo
Katie Hae Leo is a Korean American playwright, poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer.
Her writing has been published in Water~ Stone Review, Asian American Poetry& Writing, Kartika Review, 60 Seconds to Shine: One-minute Monologues for Men, MN Women's Press, and Utne Reader.
Her stage work includes Four Destinies, first produced by Mu Performing Arts, and N/A, a solo piece the debuted at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia and was remounted at Dreamland Arts in Saint Paul.
The themes in her work involve place, identity, and her experience as a transracial Korean adoptee.
Her influences include Suzan- Lori Parks, Young Jean Lee, and Kristina Wong.
Leo's awards include the Academy of American Poets' James Wright Prize and the Gesell Award for nonfiction.
Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She has received funds from the MN State Arts Board, the Blacklock Foundation, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
She has taught at St. Catherine University and Minneapolis Community& Technical College.
She received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Minnesota.
Nigel Shawn Williams
Nigel Shawn Williams is a Canadian actor and theatre director in Toronto, Ontario.
Williams was born in Jamaica, and moved to Canada with his family in childhood.
A 1990 graduate of the University of Windsor, his early stage roles included Thomas Coyle's" The Tyrant of Pontus", Suzan- Lori Parks'" Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom", Robert E. Sherwood's" The Petrified Forest" and George Bernard Shaw's" The Six of Calais".
He won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role – Play in 1995 for his performance as Paul in John Guare's" Six Degrees of Separation".
He won a second Dora as an actor in 2012 for his performance as Lincoln in Obsidian Theatre's production of Suzan- Lori Parks'" Topdog/ Underdog", and was a nominee in 2013 for his performance as Henry in Canadian Stage's production of David Mamet's" Race".
As a director, he won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play/ Musical in 2006 for his direction of Colleen Wagner's" The Monument", and was nominated in 2011 for his direction of Anusree Roy's" Brothel# 9".
His film and television credits include the television series" The City The Famous Jett Jackson The Jane Show" and" The Listener", and the films" Phantom PunchDown in the DeltaVendetta John Q" and" Brown Girl Begins".
Elaine Avila
Elaine Avila is a Canadian- American playwright, screenwriter, educator, and dramaturge.
As a playwright, her works have been produced all over the world, in places like Panama, New York City, Lisbon, the Azores, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, London, Toronto, Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria.
Her works have been noted for" frequently incorporating music, politics, and humor."
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan- Lori Parks has described Avila as a" wonderful writer, tremendously gifted, reliable and innovative".
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World is a play by Suzan- Lori Parks.
It premiered in 1990 in Brooklyn, New York and was produced Off- Broadway in 2016.
Mary McHenry
Mary Williamson McHenry( born January 23, 1933) is" credited with bringing African- American literature to Mount Holyoke College," where she is Emeritus Professor of English.
McHenry also introduced her then student, the Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright Suzan- Lori Parks, to Five Colleges faculty member James Baldwin during the 1980s.
Parks would later credit McHenry with her success.
Nadine George-Graves
Nadine George- Graves is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego and past president of the Congress on Research in Dance.
She also served on the executive boards of the American Society for Theater Research and the Society of Dance History Scholars and the editorial boards of SDHS and Choreographic Practices.
George- Graves has been Vice Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance and Acting Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego.
She is the editor of the" Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater".
Her creative projects include" Architectura", a dance theater piece inspired by architecture, about how we build our lives, Suzan- Lori Parks ’" Fucking A", and" Topdog/ Underdog".
Recipient of the 2014 Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center
Edward Leung
Edward Leung Tin-kei( born 2 June 1991) is a Hong Kong politician and activist.
He is the former spokesman of Hong Kong Indigenous, a localist group.
He was arrested in the 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest.
He ran in the 2016 New Territories East Legislative Council by-election in the New Territories East and received more than 66,000 votes, around 15% of the votes.
Five months later, he was barred from running in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election due to his pro-independence stance.
Leung coined the slogan" Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times" while he was running for the 2016 by-election, and it was later widely used during the 2019 Hong Kong protests.
In Dec 2017, he resigned from his position as spokesperson of Hong Kong Indigenous.
In the same year," Lost in the Fumes", an award- winning documentary based on him, was released.
In June 2018, he was convicted of riot and assaulting a police officer during the Mong Kok unrest and sentenced to jail for six years.
In 2019, Leung is recognized by" Time" magazine on its" 100 Next", a list of rising stars expected to shape the future.
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan- Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist.
Her 2001 play" Topdog/ Underdog" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks is the first African American woman to achieve this honor for drama.
Edward Kemp
Edward Kemp (25 September 1817 – 1 March 1891) was an English landscape architect and an author.
Together with Joseph Paxton and Edward Milner, Kemp became one of the leaders in the design of parks and gardens during the mid-Victorian era in England.
Leah Blatt Glasser
Leah Blatt Glasser is an American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College.
She was" Dean of First- Year Studies" and is currently a" Lecturer in English" at Mount Holyoke College.
Her former student( the Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright, Suzan- Lori Parks) would later credit Glasser with her success.

Question: Do Suzan-Lori Parks and Edward Leung have the same nationality?
Answer: no