Paul Green

Paul Green (17 March 1894 - 4 May 1981) American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Born in Lillington, North Carolina and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cornell University, Green first attracted attention with his 1925 one-act play The No 'Count Boy which was produced by the New York Theatre Club. The next year his full-length play In Abraham's Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize. The play is remarkable for its depiction of Negros in the American South.

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Green created a new literary form called a symphonic drama which incorporated music as a dramatic element often basing the plot on historical events. His first experiment with this form is Johnny Johnson which used music by Kurt Weil. One of his most successful and lasting symphonic dramas is The Lost Colony (1937) which is still played during the summer in an outdoor ampitheatre in Manteo, North Carolina. The Lost Colony is the second oldest outdoor historical drama in the United States. Among his other outdoor symphonic dramas are Faith of Our Fathers, Wilderness Road, The Founders, and The Stephen Foster Story which continues to be played each summer Bardstown, Kentucky.

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Green's output was not only confined to plays, he also wrote on the subject of his beloved North Carolina. He also was a founder of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and the Institute for Outdoor Drama. He served UNESCO travelling around the world to lecture on human rights and drama. Green served as a professor of drama at UNC Chapel Hill until his death in 1981.

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