Suzan-Lori Parks

Writing

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks is the first African American woman to achieve this honor for drama. Description above from the Wikipedia article Suzan-Lori Parks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography

Screenwriting

2 titles

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Movie2021

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Girl 6

Movie1996

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

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Genius

TV2017

The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.