KATHLEEN COLLINS THE POSSIBILITIES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN (REMINISCENCES OF BILL GUNN AND KATHLEEN COLLINS - PART 2)

Thanks to her daughter Nina, who now serves as the administrator and literary executor of her estate (and the work of countless curators, programmers, archivists, and film preservationists), we are now beneficiaries of many of the works that she uncovered. Tragically, one week after their marriage,...

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Published in:Black masks 2024-01, Vol.29 (1), p.7-14
Main Author: Williams, John E
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthologies
Archives & records
Archivists
Black people
Cancer
Coleman, Bessie
Collins, Kathleen (1941-1988)
Comparative literature
Deaths
Dramatists
Females
Morrison, Toni (1931-2019)
Motion picture directors & producers
One-act plays
Screenplays
Study abroad
Theater
Women
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Summary:Thanks to her daughter Nina, who now serves as the administrator and literary executor of her estate (and the work of countless curators, programmers, archivists, and film preservationists), we are now beneficiaries of many of the works that she uncovered. Tragically, one week after their marriage, she learned that she had contracted metastasized breast cancer. Rediscovering Kathleen Collins After I graduated from NYU with my MA degree in French and comparative literature, I began teaching about the works of Kathleen Collins in various courses about women in film at the University of California, Berkeley and the Department of Cinema at San Francisco. While conducting research in the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival Archive, I was amazed to come across a trove of forgotten plays, scripts and dramatic works by Kathleen Collins as well as unpublished works of other Black playwrights with whom Papp had been closely associated during his lifetime, including Bill Gunn, Ntozake Shange, and Charles Gordoné.
ISSN:0887-7580