Background
Kathy Perkins was born on August 27, 1954, in Mobile, Alabama, United States. She is the daughter of Marion and Minerva (Fletcher) Perkins.
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Howard University where Kathy A. Perkins received a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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The University of Michigan where Kathy A. Perkins received a Master of Fine Arts.
Kathy A. Perkins with the author Heather Williams.
Kathy A. Perkins with two music students at the TaSUBA Institute for Arts and Culture.
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This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers, including national and international award-winning playwrights. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as interviews with the writers, who candidly discuss the theatrical and political situation in the new South Africa. Written before and after apartheid, the plays present varying approaches and theatrical styles from solo performances to collective creations.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-South-African-Women-Anthology-dp-0415182433/dp/0415182433/?tag=2022091-20
1998
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This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women resisting old traditions. In addition to the plays themselves, this collection includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished plays by African women.
https://www.amazon.com/African-Women-Playwrights-Kathy-Perkins/dp/0252075730/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, the plays collected here...)
Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, the plays collected here are the ones Childress herself believed were her best, and offer a realistic portrait of the racial inequalities and social injustices that characterized these decades. Her plays often feature strong-willed female protagonists whose problems bring into harsh relief the restrictions faced by African American women. This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the work of a major playwright whose impact on the American theater was profound and lasting.
https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Plays-Alice-Childress/dp/0810127512/?tag=2022091-20
2011
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This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything, these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work, but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre.
https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Companion-American-Performance-Companions-ebook/dp/B07H4XH73M/?tag=2022091-20
2018
editor educator writer lighting designer
Kathy Perkins was born on August 27, 1954, in Mobile, Alabama, United States. She is the daughter of Marion and Minerva (Fletcher) Perkins.
Kathy A. Perkins studied at Howard University where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1976. She also attended the University of Michigan and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Lighting Design in 1978.
Kathy Perkins started her career as a lighting designer and technical director at Sound in Motion Studio in 1978. In 1979 she became a lighting instructor at Smith College Theatre Department and held this post until 1985. She also worked as a visiting scholar at Columbia University Theatre Arts Program Productions from 1981 to 1982. In 1985 Perkins became a resident lighting designer at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. She held this post until 1987. She worked as an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women. Perkins served as a curatorial assistant at the California African American Museum from 1986 to 1989. She also served as a professor of theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign from 1989 to 2011. In 2012 she took up the same post at the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She left this post in 2018. Perkins also served as a visiting professor at the United States Information Service, University of California and the University of Oregon.
Kathy Perkins has designed lighting throughout the U.S. at such regional theatres as American Conservatory Theatre (ACT), Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory, Seattle Repertory, St. Louis Black Repertory, The Alliance, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Congo Square, Manhattan Theatre Club, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New Federal Theatre, ETA Creative Arts, Mark Taper, Indiana Repertory, Court Theatre, Writers Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Two Rivers Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Company, and Victory Gardens.
Kathy Perkins wrote her first book Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays in 1998. Later she wrote such books as African Women Playwrights: An Anthology and Selected Plays by Alice Childress. Her latest book The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance was published in 2018. She also was a co-editor of such books as Contemporary Plays by Women of Color and Strange Fruit: Lynching Plays by American. Perkins wrote articles for Theatre Design and Technology Journal, Black American Literature Forum, Freedomways Magazine and Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
(Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, the plays collected here...)
2011(This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, ...)
2018(This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group ...)
2008(This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the l...)
1998Kathy A. Perkins is a member of Black Theatre Network, United States Institute for Theatre Technology and the United Scenic Artists.