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1998/1999
Recipient
Laurence Holder is known
for creating, directing and acting in plays which portray the lives
of African American legends such as Ethel Waters, Valaida Snow,
Zora Neale Hurston, Nelson Mandela, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell,
and Malcolm X. Laurence's dramatic work expands over three decades.
Holder has received reviews from The New York Times, Amsterdam
News, and Village Voice among others. In addition
to being a playwright, Mr. Holder is also a professor at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, where he has taught English for the
past 25 years.
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