Valetta Anderson

As professional playwright, my productions include “Medusa In You” produced in the 2018 Cincinnati LAB Festival, “Hallelujah Street Blues” by Horizon Theatre, “Leaving Limbo,” by Essential Theatre, “She’ll Find Her Way Home” and “Today” by Jomandi Productions, “Dr. Love And The Fabulous Diamond Jubilee” by Clark-Atlanta University Players, and “Sisters And Other Christmas Turkeys,” by 7Stages Theatre (all in Atlanta). “She’ll Find…” was also produced by Nashville’s Fisk University Little Theatre and by Pittsburgh’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre.

My awards include AT&T:Onstage; Cultural Olympiad of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games; Essential Theatre’s Power Plays; Hermann Kesten Stipend in Nürnberg, Germany; Rockefeller Foundation’s New Play Development Grant; Rouse Company National Humanities Award; and Serenbe Institute’s Artist-in-Residence Award.

I am a member of the Dramatists Guild, Georgia Writers Registry and Merely Writers. I am former Board Member of the Decatur Arts Alliance and of Working Title Playwrights.

Around here (Zotero) I organize my historical research for my personal pleasure in it and for my plays. And as my interests have been called "wildly eclectic," Zotero affords me an easy means to organize them in folders and cross-reference them with tags to more closely match my mind's freewheeling associations and links.

I am a former Teaching Artist with Atlanta’s Alliance, Fox Theatre and Horizon Theatre and former Adjunct Drama Professor at Spelman College. I am currently retired and as focused on playwriting as people my grandson's age, who still get Care Packages from home. You've got to be a certain age to know what a Care Package was. The rest of you, please Google it.

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

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Affiliation

Dramatists Guild, Atlanta Dramatists, Virginia Playwrights Forum

Website

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