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For the Ben Folds Five Song, see Alice Childress (song). " Alice Childress " is a song from Ben Folds Five 's 1995 self-titled debut album

Alice Childress (born October 12, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, died August 14, 1994) was an American playwright and author. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Charleston is a city in Charleston county in the US state of South Carolina. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created

Childress was born in South Carolina, but at age nine, after her parents separated, she moved to Harlem where she lived with her grandmother. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center Though her grandmother had no formal education, she encouraged Alice to pursue her talents in reading and writing. Alice attended public school in New York for her middle school and high school education. She became involved in theater immediately after her graduation. In the 1940's, she studied Drama in the American Negro Theatre (ANT). The American Negro Theater (ANT was formed in Harlem on June 5, 1940 by writer Abram Hill and actor Frederick O'Neal. There she won acclaim as an actress in numerous productions, and moved to broadway with the transfer of ANT's hit comedy Anna Lucasta. Alice also became involved in social causes. She formed an off-broadway union for actors. Her first play, Florence, was produced off-Broadway in 1950. She was the first black woman to have a play produced professionally, and is also the first woman to win an OBIE award

Alice Childress is also known for her literary works. The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to Off-Broadway Theater Among these are Those Other People (1989) and A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich (1973). A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich is a 1973 young adult novel by Alice Childress. Also, she wrote a screenplay for the 1978 film based on A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. Childress described her writing as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society.

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The song "Alice Childress" by Ben Folds Five is not related to her. " Alice Childress " is a song from Ben Folds Five 's 1995 self-titled debut album Ben Folds Five was a piano-based rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is a coincidence that there was a woman with the same name that poured water on Ben Folds' wife at the time, Anna Goodman. [1]

References

  1. ^ iTunes Originals interview with Ben Folds
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