BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Patricia Joann Gibson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. She received a BA from Keuka College in 1973, and won a Schubert Fellowship to study at Brandeis University where she received an MFA. Gibson studied with J.P. Miller, the author of Wine and Roses. After graduation, she taught creative writing at Boston College from 1975-76, and then creative writing/playwriting at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center.

Ms. Gibson has been a guest lecturer in the Sudan, at Yale University, and at Boston College; and has taught classes at Rutgers and UC-Berkeley. At one time she administered the arts programs for WGBH-TV in Boston, and also worked with CETA, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Arts Program in New York. Gibson currently has an appointment as an Assistant Professor of English at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

In addition to drama, for which she won an NEA grant, Gibson also writes poetry and short stories. She recently published two stories and a poem in the anthology Erotique Noire/Black Erotica.

PLAYS

Shameful in Your Eyes; and Black Woman - 1971

Produced at Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York.

Void Passage; with Konvergence - 1973

Produced by Players Company in Trenton.

The Ninth Story Window - 1974

Produced at Brandeis University.

Spid a Bug - 1975

Produced at Brandeis University.

My Mark My Name - 1978

Produced by the Soul People's Repertory in Indianapolis.

The Androgyny - 1979

Produced by the Cardboard Clowns Theatre, Frankfurt, Germany.

Miss Ann Don't Cry No More - 1980

Produced by the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center.

Angel - 1981

Staged reading at Family Theater

Unveiling of Abigail - 1981

Produced in Torino, Italy; later produced as Unveilings in New York City in 1982.

Brown Silk and Magenta Sunsets - 1981

Staged reading at Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center.

Clean Sheets Can't Soil - 1983

Produced at Rites and Reason in Providence, Rhode Island under the direction of Akin Babatunde.

Long Time Since Yesterday - 1985

Produced at the New Federal Theatre under the direction of Bette Howard.

Deep Roots - 1998

World Premiere at the Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts (Philadelphia)

CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

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Black Writers

Contemporary Authors v. 142

Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Dictionary and Dramatic Index

Female Dramatist: Profiles of Women Playwrights from the Middle Ages to Contemporary Times

Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre

Oxford Companion to African American Literature

Women Playwrights of Diversity

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