Aleshea Harris
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Aleshea Harris is an American playwright, spoken word artist, author, educator, actor, performer, and screenwriter. Her play Is God Is won the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award in 2016. In 2023, her play On Sugarland was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[1]
Aleshea Harris | |
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Occupation | Playwright, writer, spoken word artist |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Southern Mississippi (BA) California Institute of the Arts (MFA) |
Genre | Theatre, drama |
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Her work has been commissioned for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Her plays have toured in France and in Belgium and have been presented at Playfest at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, California Institute of the Arts, VOXfest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and the Comédie de Saint-Étienne-National Drama Center in France.