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Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta-based writer whose plays
include Bourbon at the Border, Blues for an Alabama
Sky and Flyin’ West, all three
commissioned and premiered by the Alliance Theatre.
Blues went on to receive productions across the country
at such theaters as Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Huntington
Theatre, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Madison
Repertory, and A Contemporary Theatre.
Her books include Mad At Miles: A Black Woman’s
Guide To Truth; Deals With The Devil And Other Reasons
To Riot; One For The Brothers; a collection of
poetry entitled We Don’t Need No Music;
and the novels, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary
Day, I Wish I Had a Red Dress, and Some Things
I Never Thought I'd Do. Cleage currently is Playwright
in Residence at Spelman College, the editor of Catalyst,
and the artistic director of Just Us Theater Company.
An alumna of Spelman College, Cleage makes her home
in Atlanta.
She is the daughter of Rev. Albert B. Cleage, Jr.
(Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman), the prominent Detroit minister
who founded both the Pan African Orthodox Christian
Church (PAOCC) and the Shrine of the Black Madonna.
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