Gloria Bond Clunie

Gloria Bond Clunie’s Victory Gardens premieres include North Star (winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for New Play, the 1994 Theodore Ward African-American Playwriting Award and the 1999 American Alliance for Theater and Education Distinguished Play Award) and Shoes (2005 Black Theatre Alliance New Play Award). Other produced credits include Secrets, Sing! Malindy, Sing!, Dreams, Basket of Wishes – Bucket of Dreams, Mirandy and Brother Wind and Sweet Water Taste (winner of the 2004-2005 Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting). Since 1981, Clunie has been a full-time drama specialist in Evanston's School District 65. She is the winner of the 1997 Alice Walker Short Fiction Award, a 1996 Illinois Playwriting Fellowship, a 1993 Arts Education Fellowship (NEA/CBE) and the 2000 Scott McPherson Playwriting Award. In 1986, Clunie was given the Evanston Mayor's Award for the Arts.

Recently, her new play Living Green will receive its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in the 2008-09 season. Living Green was also honored with an award and reading in May at the 2008 New Professional Theatre Writers Festival in New York and was a finalist in Chicago Dramatist’s Many Voices competition.   Her new play Drip – Part One of the Dear Cora Trilogy will open the 2008-09 Season at Chicago’s  eta Creative Arts Foundation. A reading of Shoes was performed at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta as part of the American Alliance for Theater & Education Conference.

Dream – A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., 1981

Sing Malindy Sing, 1987

Basket of Wishes – Bucket of Dreams, 1989

Secrets, 1990

North Star, 1994

Some Enchanted Evening, 1997

Mirandy and Brother Wind (adaptation of book by Patricia McKissack), 2001

Living Green, 2005

Shoes, 2005

Sweet Water Taste, 2005