In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with professor, director, and playwright, Dr. Carlton Molette!
Barbara and Carlton Molette have been Dramatists Guild members since 1971. The
Morehouse-Spelman Players premiered ROSALEE PRITCHETT in 1970. The Negro
Ensemble Company produced the New York premiere In 1971, as well as a revival in 2017
for their 50th anniversary season. ROSALEE PRITCHETT has also been produced by The
FreeSouthern Theatre, several universitytheatres, published byDramatistsPlayService, and
in the anthology Black Writers of America. In 1972, Atlanta University Summer Theatre
premiered DR. B.S. BLACK, a musical collaboration with Charles Mann, with Samuel L.
Jackson as Dr. Black and LaTanya Richardson as his wife before she became his real-life
wife. After Washington, D. C., Houston, and Memphis productions, Theatre of the Stars and
Just Us Theatre produced the musical at Atlanta’s Peachtree Playhouse. BOOJI and NOAH'S
ARK (published in the anthology Center Stage) also premiered in Atlanta in the 1970's.
More recently premieres include: FORTUNES OF THE MOOR (New York’s Frank Silvera
Writers’ Workshop) with additional productions by Ghana’s National Theatre; Chicago’s
ETA Creative Arts; and Brown, Ohio State, Western Michigan, Louisville, Pittsburgh and
Connecticut universities; OUR SHORT STAY (Miami’s M Ensemble); PRUDENCE
(Connecticut Repertory Theatre after Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism’s
Playwright Award); LEGACY (Atlanta’s New African Grove after Ethel Woolson Award);
PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER (Houston’s De Luxe Theater). Ten minute plays include: OUT
OF TIME (New York’s Turtle Shell); MOVE THE CAR (Warehouse Performing Arts
Center, NC); TEE SHIRT HISTORY (Atlanta’s Essential Theatre); A FOND FAREWELL
(West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley Theatre); LAST SUPPER and KIN SHIP (Houston’s
Fade to Black). A reading of ADA’s HUSBAND PASSED won the 2019 “Best of the
Festival Award” at the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival.
Barbara Molette (B.A. Florida A. & M. U.; M.F.A. Florida State U.; Ph.D. U. of Missouri)
Professor Emerita and English Department Chair, Eastern Connecticut State U.; faculty at
Spelman College, Texas Southern U.,Baltimore City Community College (also Director of
WritingAcross the Curriculum); Director of Arts-in-Education Programs, Cityof Baltimore.
Carlton Molette (B.A. Morehouse; M.A., U. of Iowa; Ph.D. Florida State U.) U. of
Connecticut Professor Emeritus; faculty at Spelman College, Florida A. & M., Howard,
Atlanta, Texas Southern Universities; Fine Arts Division Chair, Spelman; School of
Communications Dean, Texas Southern; Arts and Sciences Dean, Lincoln (MO); Vice
President for Academic Affairs, Coppin State (MD).
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