Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAK-kay SHONG-gay) is an African American playwright, performance artist, and writer who is best-known for her Obie Award winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Among her honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize. Shange lives in Philadelphia.

Shange's bibliography

Plays

• for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem (1975) First produced in New York City at Studio Riobea in 1975; produced Off-Broadway at the Anspacher Public Theatre in 1976; produced on Broadway at the Booth Theatre that same year. Winner of the Obie Award, Outer Circle Critics Award, Audelco Award. Nominated for a Tony Award, Grammy Award, and Emmy Award.
• A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion (1977) Produced Off-Broadway at the Public Theatre.
• Boogie Woogie Landscapes (1979) First produced at Frank Silvera's Writers' Workshop in New York, then on Broadway at the Symphony Space Theatre.
• Spell #7 (1979) Produced Off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre.
• Black and White Two Dimensional Planes (1979).
• Mother Courage and Her Children (1980) Produced off-Broadway at the Public Theatre. Winner of a 1981 Obie Award.
• Three for a Full Moon (1982)
• Bocas (1982) First produced at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
• Educating Rita (1982) First produced at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.
• From Okra to Greens/A Different Kinda Love Story (1983).
• Three views of Mt. Fuji (1987) First produced in San Francisco at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre; first produced in New York at the New Dramatists.
• Daddy Says (1989).

Poetry

• Melissa & Smith (1976).
• Natural Disasters and Other Festive Occasions (1977)
• Nappy Edges (1978)
• A Daughter's Geography (1983)
• From Okra to Greens (1984)
• Ridin' the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings (St. Martin's Press, 1987)

Prose

• Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel (1982)
• See No Evil: Prefaces, Essays & Accounts, 1976-1983 (1984)
• The Black Book (1986, with Robert Mapplethorpe).
• If I Can Cook You Know God Can (1998)