Rate My Professor Darren Canady

Canady's playwriting has earned him distinguished awards and residencies, including the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award from the Alliance Theatre in May 2006 for False Creeds, the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from The Juilliard School and Lincoln Center Theater, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and the Theodore Ward Prize for African-American Playwrights. He has held residencies at America-in-Play, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. His selected plays, staged nationally and internationally, encompass Brothers of the Dust (Congo Square Theatre Company, Chicago), False Creeds (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), No Kerchiefs (The BE Company, New York, March 2009), You’re Invited! (Old Vic New Voices, Old Vic Theatre, London), One Night Dickie Didn’t Come Home (Helen Hocker Center for the Performing Arts, Topeka), He Was Mine But Then You Took Him (New York University), Black Idiot Box and No Sparkle in the Dust (Scotch ‘n’ Soda Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University), Muddy the Water (The BE Company, New York), How Theo Changed His Name (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), and One Night at Fern’s (Quo Vadimus Arts, New York), among others. Canady's contributions enrich contemporary theater with poignant explorations of Black experiences in the Midwest.