Discipline: Literature

Lonnie Carter

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972
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Lonnie Carter’s play The Romance of Magno Rubio received eight Obies for its production by the Ma-Yi Theatre Company in 2003. His plays have been produced by The Yale Repertory Theater, the American Place Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, and the Long Wharf Theater, as well as at the first Asian-American Theater Festival in New York City (2007), the Los Angeles Theater Center’s Latino Theater Festival (also 2007), and festivals abroad . His plays include China Calls, The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, “The Gulliver Plays” (Lemuel, Gulliver, and Gulliver Redux, published by Broadway Play Publishing), Baby Glo, Wheatley, Concerto Chicago, and The Lost Boys of Sudan. The Lost Boys of Sudan was produced by Victory Gardens in 2010. Carter is a charter member of the Victory Gardens Playwrights’ Ensemble, which was the Tony Winner for Best Regional Theatre 2001. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists in New York and the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Marquette University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and twice a Fellow of the National Endowment of the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. He is an associate teacher at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Dramatic Writing Program.