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Carlyle Brown
American playwright, performer and artistic director
Carlyle Brown is an American playwright, performer and the artistic director and founder of the Minneapolis-based Carlyle Brown & Company.[1][2][3] His notable plays include The African Company Presents Richard the Third[4], Pure Confidence[5], The Beggar's Strike, The Negro of Peter the Great, A Big Blue Nail, The Pool Room, Dartmoor Prison, Yellow Moon Rising, Down in the Mississippi and others.
Brown is a core writer and board member of the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis.[6] He is an alumnus of New Dramatists in New York and the recipient of commissions from the Houston Grand Opera, The Children's Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Goodman Theatre and others.[7]