Lonnie Carter

Lonnie Carter has spent more than thirty years writing plays that jump racial and ethnic boundaries. Premieres at Victory Gardens include The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, Lemuel, Necktie Party and Concerto Chicago. The Romance of Magno Rubio (winner of 8 Obie Awards in 2003) was produced at Victory Gardens in 2004, and has gone on to be produced at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT, its seventh production in three years. These plays and others have also been performed at LaMama, E.T.C., the American Place Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre. Wheatley premiered at Victory Gardens in the 2005-2006 season and The Lost Boys of Sudan will premiere at The Children’s Theater in Minneapolis as part of their 2006-2007 season. Carter’s Organizing Abraham Lincoln (with Rich Klimmer) was the winner of The Two-Headed Challenge sponsored by the Playwrights’ Center and the Guthrie Theater. Carter has taught playwriting at New York University since 1979. He is a member of New Dramatists.

Plays: 

Iz She Izzy Or Iz He Aint’zy Or Iz They Both, 1969

If Time Must Have a Stop, Space is Where It's At, Here at Dead Center of America, 1970

The Big House, 1971

Cream Cheese, 1974

The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, 1976

The Odd Women, 1979

Bicicletta, 1983

Necktie Party, 1987

Mothers and Sons, 1987

Gulliver, 1988

Brer Clare, 1989

Chocolate City, 1990

Gulliver Redux, 1991

I.B. Randy, Jr., 1995

Lemuel, 1996

Holofernes, 1997

China Calls, 1999

Wheatley, 2000

The Romance of Magno Rubio, 2002

Bollywood, 2003

Concerto Chicago, 2003

The Lost Boys of Sudan, 2004

Organizing Abraham Lincoln, 2005

Blunkett, 2005