Drama and Diversity Resources
African American, Asian American, and Hispanic Drama

This research guide lists some resources pertaining to African America, Asian American, and Hispanic drama that could be helpful to the students and faculty here at CMU. This guide is under construction, so if you have any suggestions to make it better, please do not hesitate to contact me.

General

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color:  An Anthology.  New York:  Routledge, 1996. [Books: PS 627 .M5 C66 1996] Great Scenes from Minority Playwrights: Seventy-Four Scenes of Cultural Diversity.  Colorado Springs: Meriwether, 1997. [Books: PS 627 .M5 G65 1997] Monologues for Actors of Color: Men.  New York:  Routledge, 2000. [Books: PN 2080 .M535 2000] Monologues for Actors of Color: Women.  New York:  Routledge, 2000. [Books: PN 2080 .M536 2000] Multicultural Theatre II: Contemporary Hispanic, Asian, and African-American Plays.  Colorado Springs: Meriwether, 1998. [Books: PS 627 .M5 M85 1998] Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers.  London: Aurora Metro Press, 1993. [Books: PN 6120 .W6 S58 1993] Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama.  New York: Peter Lang, 1995. [Books: PS 352 .S73 1995]

African American

African American Scenebook.  New York:  Falmer Press, 1999. [Books: PS 628 .N4 A37 1999] African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide.  New York: Garland, 1999. [Books: PS 153 .N5 G29 1999] Anadolu-Okur, Nilgun.  Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller.  New York: Garland, 1997. [Books:PS 338 .N4 A45 1997] Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays Before 1950.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. [Books: PS 628 .N4 B54 1989] Black Heroes: Seven Plays.  New York: Applause, 1989. [Books: PS 628 .N4 B545 1989] Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans 1847 to Today.  New York: Free Press, 1996. [Books: PS 628 .N4 B56 1996t] Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage.  New York: Garland, 1999. [Books: PS 338 .N4 B57 1999] Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. [Books: PS 338 .N4 B76 1988] Brown, William Wells.  The Escape, or, A Leap for Freedom:  A Drama in Five Acts.  Knoxville:  University of Tenessee Press, 2001. [Books: PS 1139 .B9 E8 200] Flyin’ West and Other Plays. New York:  Theatre Communications Group, 1999. [Books: PS 3553 .L389 A6 1999] Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays.  New York: Plume, 1996. [Books: PS 628 .N4 C65 1996] Edwards, Gus.  50 African American Audition Monologues.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinmann, 2002. [Books: PN 2080 .E35 2002] Get on the Bus.  Culver City, CA:  Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2000. [MEDIA SERVICES: DVD 0142] African American Theatre: An Historical and Critical Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Books: PN 2270 .A35 H39 1994] Kennedy, Adreinne.  The Adrienne Kennedy Reader.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2001. [Books: PS 3561 .E4252 A6 2001] Krasner, David.  Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1910.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. [Books: PN 2270 .A35 K7 1997] Malcolm X.  Burbank, CA:  Warner Home Video, 2000.  [MEDIA SERVICES    DVD 0144] Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994. [Books: PS 628 .N4 M66 1994] The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America’s Leading African-American Theaters.  New York: Applause, 1995. [Books: PS 628 .N4 N38 1995] 9 Plays by Black Women.  New York: New American Library, 1986. [Books: PS 628 .N4 A13 1986] Peterson, Bernard L.  Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. [REF PS 153 .N5 P43 1988] ---. Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers: A Biographical Directory and Catalog of Plays, Films, and Broadcasting Scripts.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [REF PS 153 .N5 P44 1990] The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. [Books: PS 628 .N4 R66 1991] A Sourcebook of African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements.  London: Routledge, 1999. [Books: PN 2270 .A35 S68 1999] Totem voices: Plays from the Black World Repertory.  New York: Grove Press, 1989. [Books: PS 628 .N4 T68 1989] Williams, Dana A.  Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. [Books: Z1229 .N39 W55 1998] Wilson, August.  Jitney.  Woodstock, NY:  Overlook Press, 2001. [Books: PS 3573 .I45677 J58 2001] Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. [Books: PS 628 .N4 W56 1990]

Asian American

Asian American Drama: 9 Plays from the Multiethnic Landscape.  New York: Applause, 1997. [Books: PS 628 .A85 A88 1997] Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1990. [Books: PS 628 .A85 B4 1990] The Chinese Other, 1850-1925: An Anthology of Plays.  Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997. [Books: PS 627 .C54 C47 1997] Gotanda, Philip Kan.  Ballad of Yachiyo.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997. [Books: PS 3557 .O7934 B34 1997] ---. Fish Head Soup and Other Plays.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. [Books: PS 3557 .O7934 F57 1995] Hwang, David Henry.  FOB and Other Plays.  New York: New American Library, 1990. [Books: PS 3558 .W83 F6 1990] ---. Golden Child.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1998. [Books: PS 3558 .W83 G65 1998] ---. M. Butterfly.  New York: New American Library, 1989. [Books: PS 3558 .W83 M2 1989] Kumu Kahua Plays.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. [Books: PS 571 .H3 K85 1983] Lee, Josephine D.  Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. [Books: PS 338 .A74 L44 1997] Multicultural Theatre II:  Contemporary Hispanic, Asian, and African-American plays.  Colorado Springs, CO:  Meriwether Pub., 1998.  [Books: PS 627 .M5 M85 1998] The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. [Books: PS 628 .A85 P65 1993] Unbroken Thread: An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. [Books: PS 628 .A85 U53 1993. Also available online]

Hispanic

Arrizon, Alicia.  Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. [Books: PN 2270 .M48 A77 1999] Latins Anonymous: Two Plays. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1996. [Books: PS 628 .H57 L38 1996] Leguizamo, John.  Spic-o-rama: A Dysfunctional Comedy.  New York: Bantam Books, 1994. [Books: PS 3562 .E424 S65 1994] Montoya, Richard.  Culture Clash:  Life, Death, and Revolutionary Comedy:  The Mission:  A Bowl Of Beings:  Radio Mambo.  New York:  Theatre Communications Group, 1998. [Books: PS 3563 .O5459 1998] Najera, Rick. The Pain of the Macho and Other Plays. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1997. [Books: PS 3564 .A525 P3 1997] On New Ground: Contemporary Hispanic-American Plays.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1987. [Books: PS 628 .H57 O5 1987] Out of the Fringe:  Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performances.  New York:  Theatre Communications Group, 2000. [Books: PS 628 .H57 O78 2000] Puro Teatro:  A Latin Anthology.  AZ:  University of Arizona Press, 2000. [Books: PS 628 .H57 P87 2000] Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women.  Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992. [Books: PS 628 .H57 S5 1992] Six Nuevomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. [Books: PQ 7078.5 .N62 S59 1999] Spic-O-Rama:  A Dysfunctional Comedy.  New York:  Bantam Books, 1994. [Books: PS 3562 .E424 S65 1994]