Parks Gets First Master Writer Chair At Public Theater

“It looks like the Big Orange is soon to lose another playwright to the Big Apple. Suzan-Lori Parks, the Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright (‘Topdog/Underdog’), has been awarded the first Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater in New York City.” (Surely the timing of the announcement, made hours before playwrights were to face down producers over the paucity of scripts by women staged Off Broadway, is a coincidence.)