Name Layon Gray Role Playwright | Movies Letters of Tuskegee | |
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Lauren class schneider talks to layon gray writer and actor in black angels over tuskegee
Layon Gray (born January 26, 1969, in Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American playwright and director known for work which engages and reflects a wide array of African-America movements. His best known work is the Off-Broadway play Black Angels Over Tuskegee, about the Tuskegee airmen.
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- Lauren class schneider talks to layon gray writer and actor in black angels over tuskegee
- Layons Camera
- Awards and Honors
- References
A native of Louisiana, Gray quickly ascended as one of Los Angeles’ premiere playwrights, earning more than 60 nomination and awards for his works since 2000. Layon has spent more than two decades writing, directing and developing stage plays and films which attempt to create new paradigms for the stage. Focusing on creating conversational dialogue in his works, Layon continues to make his mark in traditional African-American theater. His play Kings Of Harlem, about The New York Renaissance, also known as the Renaissance Big Five and as the Rens, was an all-black professional basketball team established February 13, 1923, by Robert "Bob" Douglas in agreement with the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom, performed for the NBA Legends during All-Star week 2015 and was selected as a main stage production at The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) His latest work "Black Sparta about the The Dahomey Amazons, an all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the present-day Republic of Benin which lasted until the end of the 19th century, was selected to perform at the 2017 The National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) and is currently in development as a motion picture.
Layon has also directed award winning plays such as: A Raisin In The Sun, A Soldiers Play, The Crucible, Before It Hits Home, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow is Enuf, and Miss Evers' Boys
Layon's Camera
Awards and Honors
2016 Broadway League Fellowship
2012 NYC Inspire Award
2012 Al Sharpton Man of Vision Award
2012 PCTF Award (Best Director)
2010 NY AUDELCO Award (Achievement Award for Excellence)
2009 NAACP Award (Best Ensemble Award)
2009 Hollywood ADA Award (Best Ensemble Award)
2008 MATCH-LIFE Artist of the Year
2007 NAACP Award (Best Producer, Best Play)
2007 MITF Award (Best Play, Best Writer, Best Director, Best Producer)
2006 NAACP Award (Best Play)
2005 Hollywood ADA Award (Best Play)
2004. Hollywood ADA Award (Best Play, Best Writer, Best Director)
2003 Los Angeles MADDY Award (Best Play, Best Writer, Best Director, Best Ensemble)