Tony Nominated Playwright creates 'The Golden Collection' of works by Black playwrights

‘Slave Play’

‘Slave Play’

Jeremy O. Harris, the actor and playwright behind SLAVE PLAY, the most Tony-nominated play in history, has partnered with Books and Crannies, a Black woman-owned independent bookstore, to create The Golden Collection - 15 plays by Black authors that are critical to expanding the “classic play canon” taught to theatre students across the country.

While editions of The Golden Collection are being distributed to libraries across the United States, individuals have the ability to purchase a copy of the collection for themselves from Books and Crannies - a portion of every purchase is donated to The National Black Theatre. The Golden Collection includes:

  • Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

  • Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry

  • The Colored Museum by George Costello Wolfe

  • An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs Jenkins

  • Sweat by Lynn Nottage

  • A Collection of Plays (Wedding Band and Trouble in Mind) by Alice Childress

  • Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks

  • We Are Proud to Present a Presentation by Jackie Sibblies Drury

  • The Mountaintop by Katori Hall

  • Is God Is by Aleshea Harris

  • Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith

  • Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy

  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

  • Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara

  • Dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott

The full collection of 15 plays is $210, and individual plays range from $11 to $25. If you would like to learn more about The Golden Collection, the library program, or to remain up to date, please visit https://slaveplaybroadway.com/resources/

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PlaywritingOnScreen Blog Writing StaffMargaret Hall