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FILE - This Jan. 1990 file photo shows playwright Arthur Kopit in Los Angeles. Kopit, a three time Tony Award-nominated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for fusing disparate genres, absurdism and a darkly comic world view, has died, Friday, April 2, 2021 according to Rick Miramontez, a senior publicist at DKC/O&M PR. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) April 03, 2021 - 7:45 AM
NEW YORK - Arthur Kopit, a three time Tony Award-nominated playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for fusing disparate genres, absurdism and a darkly comic world view, has died. He was 83.
Kopit died Friday, said Rick Miramontez, a senior publicist at DKC/O&M PR. No other details were available.
Arthur Kopit, 3-time Tony-nominated playwright, dies at 83
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Filmmaker Julie Dash
In 1991, the film industry’s racial and gender boundaries were shattered by the release of “Daughters of the Dust.” This Sundance award-winner (Best Cinematography) was presented by filmmaker Julie Ethel Dash (1952–), making her the first African-American woman to have a wide theatrical release of a feature film.
The film is a historically accurate fictionalized telling of Dash’s father’s Gullah family who lived on the islands off the southeastern coast of the United States at the dawn of the 20th century. The entire film takes place outdoors, in the woods, and on the beach, as Black history from West Africa to South Carolina is relived through its physical marks on the present.