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Jasmine Lee-Jones on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Jasmine Lee-Jones (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) joins Windham-Campbell Prize administrator Michael Kelleher for a wide-ranging conversation about the incredible power of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, linking the work of Hansberry and Jordan Peele, and the power of dreams.
Reading List:
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
August Wilson's Century Cycle
Get Out by Jordan Peele
Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
"A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
Beneatha's Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Jasmine Lee-Jones is a writer and performer. Jasmine was a writer-on-attachment for the 2016 Open Court Festival, and was further developed as a writer through the Royal Court’s Young Court programme. Her first play seven methods of killing kylie jenner (2019) was first commissioned as part of The Andrea Project and opened at the Royal Court in July 2019. In 2023, she became the youngest ever recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize.
Jasmine Lee-Jones (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) joins Windham-Campbell Prize administrator Michael Kelleher for a wide-ranging conversation about the incredible power of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, linking the work of Hansberry and Jordan Peele, and the power of dreams.
Reading List:
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
August Wilson's Century Cycle
Get Out by Jordan Peele
Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
"A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
Beneatha's Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Jasmine Lee-Jones is a writer and performer. Jasmine was a writer-on-attachment for the 2016 Open Court Festival, and was further developed as a writer through the Royal Court’s Young Court programme. Her first play seven methods of killing kylie jenner (2019) was first commissioned as part of The Andrea Project and opened at the Royal Court in July 2019. In 2023, she became the youngest ever recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize.
26 min