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Interview Details
Title & Link
Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle | The New Yorker
Publish Date
December 24, 2023
Interviewees
Danielle Brooks.
Interviewers
Doreen St. Félix
Publisher
The New Yorker
Topics
Acting career
Black theatre revivalism
Black women in theater
Challenges in the entertainment industry
Film adaptation
importance of storytelling
masculinity in storytelling
queer representation in media
Representation in Hollywood
stage performance
The Color Purple musical
People Mentioned
Alice Walker
Audra McDonald
Blitz Bazawule
Coleman Domingo
Corey Hawkins
Cynthia Erivo
Danny Glover
Fantasia Barrino
Jennifer Hudson
John David Washington
John Doyle
Margaret Avery
Oprah Winfrey
Phylicia Pearl Mpasi
Quincy Jones
Steven Spielberg
Taraji P. Henson
Whoopi Goldberg
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Works Mentioned
The Color Purple
The Piano Lesson
Topdog/Underdog
Places Mentioned
Fifty-first Street
Fifty-second Street
Fort Greene
Forty-second Street
Georgia
Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
Greenville
Juilliard
Los Angeles
New York
Savannah
Simpsonville, South Carolina
Sixty-sixth Street
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