Speakers
- Michael Dinwiddie
- New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Michael Dinwiddie is a playwright and associate professor of dramatic writing at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. In 2018 his play Actuary was produced in Louisville in the Black Lives Matter Festival, and in February 2020 his play Invisible Life will be part of the Genesis Festival at Crossroads Theatre. Michael’s courses include James Reese Europe and American Music; Poets in Protest: Footsteps to Hip Hop; Dramatizing History; Sissle, Blake & the Minstrel Tradition, and Motown Matrix: Issues of Gender, Identity and Sexuality in ‘The Sound of Young America.’ A contributing editor to Black Masks Magazine, he has also written articles and reviews for Crisis Magazine, Third World Press, Advertising Age, and Dance Research Journal. Michael is a former board member of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, and the New Federal Theatre. His honors include an NEA Fellowship in Playwriting, a Walt Disney Fellowship at Touchstone Pictures, the National Black Theatre 2013 Spirit Award, NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Medal, and an inductee into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Michael is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
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