Major works:
Funnyhouse of a Negro • The Owl Answers • A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White • The Alexander Plays • People Who Led to My Plays
“People will be reading Adrienne Kennedy’s works for centuries to come.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“Kennedy is a kind of film scenarist who is too literary for film but whose strongest work renders the stage more cinema-like, less intransigent, more open to different ways of moving.”—Hilton Als
“Adrienne Kennedy has used her immense storytelling skill with beautifully brutal imagery to share her theatrical dreamscapes with the world. . . . From 1964’s Funnyhouse of a Negro to 2018’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Adrienne has inspired countless young writers by remaining true to herself and her voice, knowing that what she had to say would resonate.”—Dramatists Guild of America
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