Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is a poet and playwright from Panama City, Panama, and the former Panama Canal Zone. In residence he completed a new draft of his play, The Tragedy of Othello the Moor, an American adaptation, and a screenplay entitled, Mama's Boy. His poetry has been published in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere in print and online. His plays have won or been a finalist for various awards and honors including the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, Best New Play Award from WSU, Farrar Prize in Playwriting, and Hopwood Award in Drama at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and various grants including a Kitchen Theater Company New Play Development Grant, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Production Grant, and the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant in Literature. His plays have been presented as part of KCACTF, NOW African Playwrights Festival, Brick Theater's Festival of Lies, Keep Soul Alive! at the National Black Theater, and elsewhere nationwide. He is a MacDowell Fellow in playwriting and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers’ Group, and the Stillwater Writers Workshop. His work in the arts has been recognized by the White House, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and U.S. Congress. He is the editor and co-author of various books and has worked as a consultant to the United Nations. Holnes is currently an assistant professor at Medgar Evers College, teaches at New York University, and is the I Am Soul Resident Playwright at the National Black Theater in New York.

Studios

Sorosis

Darrel Alejandro Holnes worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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