Donja R. Love is Black, Queer, HIV+, and surviving. A Philly native, he's the recipient of the 2018 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the 2017 Princess Grace Playwriting Award. He’s also the Lark's 2016 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellow, The Playwrights Realm’s 2016/2017 Writing Fellow, and the 2011 Philadelphia Adult Grand Slam Poetry Champion. He’s had productions at The New Group (one in two), Manhattan Theatre Club (Sugar in Our Wounds) and Atlantic Theater Company (Fireflies). He’s the co-host of Off Book, a podcast on Black theatre; and he's the co-founder of The Each-Other Project, an organization that helps build community and provide visibility, through art and advocacy, for LGBTQ People of Color. Other plays include: one in two, soft and The Trade. IG: donjarhakymelove, Twitter: donjarlove
Sessions in which Donja R. Love participates
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
The Next Generation of Major Playwrights
1 hour,
11:15 AM
- 12:15 PM
New York Hilton Midtown - Beekman Room
Panel
Richard Ridge (Moderator)
Ming Peiffer, Usual Girls (Participant)
Bess Wohl, Small Mouth Sounds (Participant)
Donja R. Love, The Love* Plays (Participant)
Janice Simpson, Outer Critics Circle (Participant)