![]() This is a flood of new work that's coming from someone already known for being prolific. And when we spoke, she was wearing a beanie that said Topdog/Underdog – merch from the revival of her acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which is on Broadway right now. ![]() She's working on her next show, an adaptation of the 1972 Jamaican crime movie The Harder They Come for off-Broadway. It's partly why, at this moment, Parks said she feels like she couldn't be "further at the edges of my creative imagination." She just wrapped up premiering her play Sally & Tom, a musical about Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Parks' latest show at the Off-Broadway Public Theater is Plays for the Plague Year, and it's her first go at acting. Instead: "I learned all my lines! It's miraculous!" ![]() When I followed up with her a few weeks later to see if she found a way to make it more digestible, she said no. And when we first spoke earlier this year, she said she was just starting to think about her body of work over the past few decades in order to come up with an overarching philosophy. Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the dominating figures in American theater today. ![]()
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