-The School of Theatre & Dance
Playwrights/Plays
Adrienne Kenedy - Funnyhouse of a Negro; Sleep Deprivation Chamber
Charles Fuller - A Soldier’s Play; Zooman and the Sign
Lynn Notage - Ruined; Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine; Sweat
Suzan-Lori Parks - The America Play; Topdog/Underdog; White Noise; Venus
Robert O’Hara - Insurrection: Holding History; Bootycandy
Anna Deveare Smith - Fires in the Mirror; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Pearl Cleage - Flyin’ West; Blues for an Alabama Sky
George C. Wolfe - The Colored Museum
Marcus Gardley - Love is a Dream House in Lorin; Paradise Square
James Ijames - White; Kill Move Paradise
Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm - Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies
Lisa Marie Rollins - Token
August Wilson - Fences; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; Jitney; The Naked Proof; Gem of the Ocean; Two Trains Running; Radio Golf; Seven Guitars; King Hedley II; How I Learned What I Learned
Stew - Passing Strange
Amiri Baraka - Dutchman
Langston Hughes - Black Nativity; Mulatto; Jerico-Jim Crow; Mule Bone; Street Scene; Tambourines to Glory
Lorraine Hansberry - Les Blancs; A Raisin in the Sun, (Raisin’ the Musical by Brittan and Woldin), To Be Young, Gifted, and Black; The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window; The Movement
Miki Grant - Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope
Alex Bradford - Your Arm’s Too Short to Box with God
Trevor D. Rhone - Smile Orange; Old Time Story; The Harder They Come
Ntozake Shange - for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Amiri Baraka - Dutchman and the Slave; The Slave; The Baptism and the Toilet; A Black Mass; Home on the Range and the Police; Four Revolutionary Plays; Slave Ship; The Motion of History
Jackie Sibblies Drury - We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915
Danai Gurira - Eclipsed, Familar
Jocelyn Bioh - School Girls; Or The African Mean Girl Play
Choreographers/Choreography
Zora Neale Hurston - The Great Day (1932)
Katherine Dunham - L’Ag’Ya (1938)
Pearl Primus - Strange Fruit (1945), Hard Times Blues (1945)
Donald McKayle - Rainbow ‘Round my Shoulder Dance Theater of Harlem (1959)
Alvin Ailey - Revelations (1960), Cry (1971)
Arthur Mitchell - Creole Giselle (1984)
Bill T. Jones - Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Dancing to the Promised Land (1990)
Diane McIntyre - How Long Brethren (1991)
Jawole Jo Willa Zollar - Shelter (1992)
Bebe Miller - Going to the Wall (1998)
Rennie Harris - March of the Antmen (1997), Facing Mekka (2003)
Ralph Lemon - Come Home Charley Patton, Part 3 in Geography Trilogy (2004)
Reggie Wilson - The Tale: Npinpee Nckutchie and the Tail of the Golden Dek (2006)
Robert Battle - No Longer Silent (2007)
Robert Moses - Biography of Baldwin (2003), The Cinderella Principle (2010)
Joanna Haigood - Dying While Black and Brown (2011)
Kyle Abraham - Pavement (2012)
Camille A. Brown - Mr.TOL E. RAncE (2012), BlACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (2015)
Jamar Roberts - Cooped (2020)
Rhodessa Jones - The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle
Dance Companies
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Dance Theater of Harlem
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Philadanco
The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
Robert Moses’Kin
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Lula Washington Dance Theatre
Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre
Dimensions Dance Theatre
Forces of Nature Dance Theatre
Theatre Companies (CA Based)
African-American Shakespeare Company
Black Repertory Group
Common Ground Theatre
Image Theatre Company
Ebony Repertory Theatre (Equity)
Lower Depths Theatre Ensemble
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
The Robey Theatre Company
Towne Street Theatre
Watts Village Theatre Company
Additional Nationwide Companies listed at Black Theatre Matters
Readings in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
The International Association of Blacks in Dance Reading List
Susan Manning - Modern Dance/Negro Dance
Thomas DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez, eds - Black Performance Theory
Thomas DeFrantz and Tara Aisha Willis - “Black Moves: New Research in Black Dance Studies” The Black Scholar.
Nyama McCarthy-Brown - Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research, and Practice.
Non-Black POC Playwrights/Plays
Young Jean Lee - The Shipment, Straight White Men
Luis Alfaro - Oedipus El Rey, Mojada: A Medea In Los Angeles
Quiara Alegria Hudes - Water By The Spoonful
Cherrie Moraga - The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea, Heroes and Saints, Watsonville, Mathematics of Love
David Henry Hwang - M. Butterfly, FOB, Chinglish, Yellow Face
Lauren Yee - Cambodian Rock Band, Ching Chong Chinaman, The Great Leap