Loften MITCHELL
Born in Columbus, North Carolina, 15 April 1919.
Stage Works
- Shattered Dreams (produced 1938)
- Blood in the Night (produced 1946)
- The Bancroft Dynasty (produced 1948)
- The Cellar (produced 1952)
- A Land Beyond the River (produced 1957)
- The Phonograph (produced 1961)
- Tell Pharaoh televised 1963; (produced 1967)
- Ballad for Bimshire, with Irving Burgie (produced 1963; revised version
produced 1964) - Ballad of the Winter Soldiers, with John Oliver Killens (produced 1964)
- Star of the Morning: Scenes in the Life of Bert Williams (produced
1965;
revised version produced 1985) - The Final Solution to the Black Problem in the United States; or, The Fall of the American Empire (produced 1970)
- Sojourn to the South of the Wall (produced 1973; revised version produced 1983)
- The Walls Came Tumbling Down, music by Willard Roosevelt (produced 1976)
- Bubbling Brown Sugar, concept by Rosetta LeNoire, music by Danny Holgate, Emme Kemp, and Lilian Lopez (produced 1976)
- Cartoons for a Lunch Hour, music by Rudy Stevenson (produced 1978)
- A Gypsy Girl (produced 1982)
- Miss Waters, To You, concept by Rosetta LeNoire (produced 1983)
SCREENPLAYS:
- Young Man of Williamsburg, 1954
- Integration: Report One, 1960
- I'm Sorry, 1965
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- Welfare Services, 1960s
- Tell Pharaoh, 1970
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS:
State University of New York, Binghamton; Boston University; Talladega College, Alabama; Schomburg Collection, New York.
CRITICAL STUDIES:
Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre 1925—1959 by Doris E. Abramson, 1969; article by Ja A. Jahannes, in Afro—American Writers after 1955 edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris, 1985.