Parris-Bailey-Linda

Linda Parris-Bailey

Knoxville, TN

Linda Parris-Bailey creates story-based plays with music focusing on themes of transformation and empowerment. She is also the Executive/Artistic Director of Carpetbag Theater, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee. She is the primary playwright-in-residence and the recipient of the 2015 Doris Duke Artist Award in Theater. Her most recent work, Speed Killed My Cousin, was awarded a NEFA National Theater Project grant to support touring and an NPN Creation Fund grant. Between a Ballad and a Blues, her ode to Appalachian renaissance man Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, was developed with support from the NPN Creation Fund and the Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations. Her signature work, Dark Cowgirls and Prairie Queens, highlights the lives of Black women in the American Old West and continues to be performed around the country. Parris-Bailey is a founding member of Alternate ROOTS and Senior Advisor to the International Women Playwrights Conference. Her works have been published in Alternate ROOTS: Plays From the Southern Theater, Ensemble Works! and other anthologies of contemporary plays.

Yankee Bajan


Linda Parris-Bailey creates story-based plays with music focusing on themes of transformation and empowerment.

Artist Bio

Yankee Bajan is the story of migration, expatriation, and immigration stimulated by the current state of the state in the United States. In many communities across America after the 2016 election, families of color are reviewing their options, particularly those who are first- and second-generation Americans.


Discipline
Musical Theater
Award Year
2019
Status

In Progress