Aleshea Harris is part of a vanguard of young, African American playwrights boring into questions of race and history through humor, drama, absurdity and tragedy.
Aleshea Harris contemplates the black body. It is a celebration and a battlefield, a terrain upon which a nation’s racism is enacted. She is intimate with how the body moves, the scars it bears, the rhythm of its words. They gather inside her, images and voices, whispering like ghosts and not ghosts, from slave days to graves dug after police shootings.
She won an Obie Award last year for “Is God Is,” a wild meditation on family dysfunction and violence told through the bloody journey of two sisters seeking to avenge a father’s crime. The language streaks with the velocity of shrapnel. The New York Times review read: “Step aside, Quentin Tarantino and Martin McDonagh, and all you other macho purveyors of mutilation and mayhem with a smile. A snarly new master of high-octane carnage has risen into view.
a life of flag salutes and bugle calls. Her father — she doesn’t speak of him; not using language is form of power — was absent when she was young. She picked up her ear for cadence and rhythm mostly in Mississippi, where sentences stretched and coiled in riffs, even the one by a school kid who joked that a black child looked like a monkey. Her teacher tried not to laugh.
Obama’s election in 2008 made her a playwright. “If he can be president, I can write,” said Harris, who at the time quit an administrative job at a Florida performing arts center. She ended up at CalArts as a student and then a teacher. “Obama’s part of an ecosystem that remains anti-black, but Barack Obama countered that mythology, shattered it.
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