Carlyle Brown is the curator and artistic director of the Minneapolis-based Carlyle Brown & Company, where he is also a playwright/performer. An alumnus of New Dramatists and a Lifetime Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, has received numerous fellowships and awards including the Black Theatre Network’s Winona Lee Fletcher Award for Outstanding Achievement and Excellence (2006), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), the Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre (2010), a United States Artist Fellowship (2010), the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater (2018), and the Hellen Merrill Award (2019). A scholar and historian, Brown has been an artist-in-residence or visiting professor at several colleges and universities. He curated the 2018 Cultural Diaspora Residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and the subsequent “Afro-Atlantic Playwrights’ Festival” at the Playwrights’ Center in July 2019. His solo shows include The Fula from America: An African Journey, Therapy and Resistance, Acting Black (created to inspire open and honest conversations about race and diversity), and The History of Religion.
Carlyle Brown
On Collaborative Evolution with Friendship at its Core
Essay
On Collaborative Evolution with Friendship at its Core
21 August 2023