Performance feedback and insertion notes box 1 folder 2.Manuscript, with typescript introductory notes box 1 folder 1.(Adaptation of Sophocles' play by Angelou, ca. Typed pages (2) and manuscript notes about music box 69 folder 8.Foreign distribution list (1976 April-May) box 60 folder 11.Typescript for Part Two: The Inheritors, with manuscript edits box 60 folder 10.Set, costume, and sound notes box 60 folder 9.Final script for Part One: Legacy (2 copies) (1976 December) box 60 folder 8.
#MAYA CINEMA PLAY SERIES#
Series correspond to play and film production names, related organizations, and assorted video and audio recordings, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Formats include manuscript, print, audio, and video.
Materials include original scripts for film and theater adaptations by Angelou of her own and other authors' works items relating to productions which Angelou produced, directed, or appeared in documentaries and interviews and ephemeral materials. The collection consists of materials relating to Maya Angelou's work in the performing arts.
Angelou passed away at her home in Winston Salem on May 28, 2014, at the age of 86. She also was the recipient of many honorary doctorates and is often referred to as Dr. Smith Reynolds chaired professorship in American Studies, a position she held until her death. In 1982 she was appointed to the first Z. She was chosen to participate in the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women in 1974, and in 1975 she became the first Black woman member of the Directors Guild of America.Īngelou first visited Wake Forest as a visiting lecturer in 1973. In 1972 her screenplay Georgia, Georgia became the first feature film written by an African American woman. In 1993 she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning"Īt the inauguration ceremony for President Bill Clinton.Īngelou continued to be active in the performing arts throughout her career, as a playwright, screenwriter, producer, and presenter for stage, television, and film projects. Angelou went on to publish more than 30 books of memoirs, as well as many volumes of poetry. In 1969 she published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of her autobiographical works, for which she is best known. She was also active in the Civil Rights Movement. She performed in plays and muscials on and off-Broadway, and she traveled widely, touring Europe and Africa in the cast of Porgy and Bess.
#MAYA CINEMA PLAY PROFESSIONAL#
Her only child, Guy Johnson, was born in 1944.Īngelou began her professional career as a singer, dancer, and actor. The children were eventually reunited with their mother in San Francisco, but Angelou returned to Stamps to live with her grandmother again as a teenager. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she and her four-year-old brother Bailey were sent to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Submit a research request for this material Biographical and Historical Note
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