Paul Green Documentary to Premiere on PBS North Carolina, July 2024

"The Playmaker" is a feature-length documentary by filmmaker Hannah Bowman. It tells the story of Paul Green's passion for civil rights, his career as a writer, and his personal magnetism as a teacher and mentor.

The film has been accepted for statewide broadcast on PBS North Carolina in July.

The film includes remarkable historical footage from Green's era and interviews with experts on his works.  Bowman also interviewed Green family members and theatre professionals, including actor Anthony Laciura; Johnny Jones, director of the African American Theater Program at University of Louisville; Whit Whitaker, executive director of the Lyric Theater and Cultural Arts Center in Lexington, KY,  and actor and film director Barbara Montgomery, who directed Green's one-act "Hymn to the Rising Sun" at New York City'a La Mama Experimental Theater Club in 2001.

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Paul Green Anthology Debuts July 23

The Foundation commissioned a collection of thoughtful essays that take a comprehensive look at the life and works of Paul Green as seen through a contemporary lens. Here is a link to preorder.

The essayists are playwrights Ian Finley, Jim Grimsley, Lynden Harris, Debra Kaufman, and Mike Wiley; novelists Marjorie Hudson and Jill McCorkle, actor/director Kathryn Hunter Williams, poet Phillip Shabazz, and writers Synora Hunt Cummings and Ray Owen.

For more information see this page.

Freedom Park is a Powerful Destination

On state property adjacent to the Archives and History building in Raleigh, North Carolina visitors can meditate on the history of the state's civil rights activities. Freedom Park, created by the late architect Phil Freelon, who also designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is centered in a grove of noble trees and surrounded by red clay walls that spiral up from the street level and bear the words of 19 African Americans from North Carolina's past. All speak to the struggle for freedom in our state's history. Playwright Paul Green, who worked to promote human rights and racial equity, is also quoted on the monument.

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