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Jordan E. Cooper in off-Broadway s
Ain t No Mo
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Three talented scribes have earned the 2021 Whiting Award for Drama. Jordan E. Cooper, Donnetta Lavinia Grays and Sylvia Khoury will each receive a $50,000 prize.
Jordan E. Cooper (Photo: Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
Cooper wrote and starred in
Ain t No Mo , which had a twice-extended run at the Public Theater in 2019. He created a pandemic centered-short film called
Mama Got a Cough, starring Danielle Brooks and Da Vine Joy Randolph. He will also be featured as Tyrone in the forthcoming final season of FX s
Pose and is currently filming
The Ms. Pat Show, an R-rated old school sitcom he created for BET+, which will debut later this year.
Originally published on April 14, 2021 7:45 pm
The winners of this year s Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize is aimed at allowing emerging writers to focus full-time on their work or to branch off in new directions. Each of these winners has a rare literary gift, Whiting Director of Literary Programs Courtney Hodell says via email. Our hope is that the Whiting Award will offer encouragement and support as they continue to dig deep into their art to nurture the work that sings it.
This year s group of winners is really a wide-ranging cohort of talent, and that itself is a kind of common thread, Hodell says. So many of these winners follow their muses over, under, and across genre boundaries in a fertile and exciting way. Speaking to the writers after they were selected, we were also struck by the strong sense of community they share. These are brilliant individuals who are attuned to the multitudinous connections that feed their writing and their selves
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World, was selected as one of
The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2020.
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Mars, after all, is only our first step into the vast, dark night. New technologies are paving the way for life-detection missions to the far reaches of our solar system, to the moons of the outer planets, far from what we once considered the “habitable zone.” To worlds that hold stacks of oceans amidst shells of ice, floating like a layer cake. That spew out jets of briny water through cryovolcanoes. That have pale hills and dark rivers and hydrocarbon rain. And then there are also the planets around other stars. There could be as many as forty billion planets that could support life in the Milky Way alone, belted with moons and moonlets potentially an entire solar system for every person on Earth. The idea of knowing these places intimately, of one day touching their surfaces, may seem ludicrous. The universe has a speed limit i
Jordan E Cooper, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, and Sylvia Khoury Win 2021 Whiting Awards
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