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Samm-Art Williams, the Glossary

Samuel Arthur Williams (January 20, 1946 – May 13, 2024) was an American playwright and screenwriter, television producer, and an actor on stage, television and film.^[1]

83 relations: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, African Americans, American Playhouse, Arena Stage, Baltimore, Billie Holiday, Blaxploitation, Blood Simple, Brian De Palma, Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Burgaw, North Carolina, Buz Kohan, Cable television, Cagney & Lacey, Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, CBS, Chicago Reader, Comedy drama, Denmark Vesey, Direct-to-video, Drama Desk Award, Dressed to Kill (1980 film), Eden (Steve Carter play), Edgar Allan Poe, Emmy Awards, Fox Broadcasting Company, Frank's Place, Good News (TV series), Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Historical drama, Home (Williams play), Hugh Wilson (director), James Earl Jones Theatre, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Langston Hughes, Leslie Lee (playwright), Lucille Lortel Theatre, Manhattan, Martin (TV series), Matthew Henson, Miami Vice, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series), Morgan State University, Muhammad Ali, National Endowment for the Arts, NBC, Negro Ensemble Company, Nevis Mountain Dew, New Federal Theatre, ... Expand index (33 more) »

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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American Playhouse

American Playhouse is an American anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

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Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D.C. Established in 1950, it was the first racially integrated theater in Washington, D.C., and its founders helped start the U.S. regional theater movement.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.

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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s, when the combined momentum of the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panthers spurred African American artists to reclaim the power of depiction of their ethnicity, and institutions like UCLA to provide financial assistance for African American students to study filmmaking.

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Blood Simple

Blood Simple is a 1984 American independent neo-noir crime film written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Burgaw, North Carolina

Burgaw is a town in and the county seat of Pender County, North Carolina, United States.

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Buz Kohan

Alan "Buz" Kohan (born August 9, 1933) is an American television writer, producer and composer.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey is an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982, to May 16, 1988.

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Camp Gilbert H. Johnson

Camp Gilbert H. Johnson is a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina and home to the Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools (MCCSSS), where various support military occupational specialties such as administration, supply, logistics, finance, Navy corpsman and motor transport maintenance are trained.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Comedy drama

Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama.

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Denmark Vesey

Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (July 2, 1822) was a free Black man and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822.

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Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, television series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere.

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Drama Desk Award

The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre.

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Dressed to Kill (1980 film)

Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic psychological thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.

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Eden (Steve Carter play)

Eden is a 1976 play by American playwright Steve Carter.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Samm-Art Williams and Edgar Allan Poe are American male dramatists and playwrights.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Frank's Place

Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television season.

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Good News (TV series)

Good News (also known as The Good News) is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from August 25, 1997, to May 19, 1998.

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Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

Hangin' with Mr.

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Historical drama

A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.

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Home (Williams play)

Home is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright Samm-Art Williams.

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Hugh Wilson (director)

Hugh Hamilton Wilson Jr. (August 21, 1943 – January 14, 2018) was an American film director, writer and television showrunner.

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James Earl Jones Theatre

The James Earl Jones Theatre, originally the Cort Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 138 West 48th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. Samm-Art Williams and Langston Hughes are African-American dramatists and playwrights and American male dramatists and playwrights.

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Leslie Lee (playwright)

Leslie Lee (1930 – January 20, 2014) was an American playwright, director and professor of playwriting and screenwriting. Samm-Art Williams and Leslie Lee (playwright) are African-American dramatists and playwrights.

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Lucille Lortel Theatre

The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Martin (TV series)

Martin is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on Fox from August 27, 1992, to May 1, 1997.

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Matthew Henson

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. Samm-Art Williams and Matthew Henson are 20th-century African-American writers and African-American male writers.

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (later titled The New Mike Hammer), with Stacy Keach in the title role, is an American crime drama television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984, to May 13, 1987.

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Morgan State University

Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Negro Ensemble Company

The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) is a New York City-based theater company and workshop established in 1967 by playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer-actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald S. Krone, with funding from the Ford Foundation.

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Nevis Mountain Dew

Nevis Mountain Dew is a 1978 play by American playwright steve carter.

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New Federal Theatre

The New Federal Theatre is a theatre company named after the African-American branch of the Federal Theatre Project, which was created in the United States during the Great Depression to provide resources for theatre and other artistic programs.

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New Freedom Theatre

New Freedom Theatre is an African-American theatre company in residence at the Freedom Theatre in Philadelphia established in 1966.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North Carolina Central University

North Carolina Central University (NCCU or NC Central) is a public historically black university in Durham, North Carolina.

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Palace Theatre (New York City)

The Palace Theatre is a Broadway theater at 1564 Broadway, facing Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Playhouse Theatre

The Playhouse Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square, central London.

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Police officer

A police officer (also called a policeman (male) or policewoman (female), a cop, an officer, or less commonly a constable) is a warranted law employee of a police force.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County.

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Regional theater in the United States

A regional theater or resident theater in the United States is a professional or semi-professional theater company that produces its own seasons.

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Richard Dubin

Richard Dubin is an American professor at Syracuse University.

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Richard Price (writer)

Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008).

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Shelley Duvall

Shelley Alexis Duvall (July 7, 1949 – July 11, 2024) was an American actress and producer.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.

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Sparring

Sparring is a form of training common to many combat sports including kickboxing.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Mark's Playhouse

St.

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Steve Carter (playwright)

Horace Edward "Steve" Carter Jr. (November 7, 1929 – September 15, 2020) was an American playwright, best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States. Samm-Art Williams and Steve Carter (playwright) are 20th-century African-American writers, 21st-century African-American writers and African-American dramatists and playwrights.

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Story editor

Story editor is a job title in motion picture and television production, also sometimes called supervising producer.

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Television film

A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.

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Television pilot

A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor.

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Television show

A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.

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Television special

A television special (often TV special, or rarely television spectacular) is a standalone television show which may also temporarily interrupt episodic programming normally scheduled for a given time slot.

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom created by Andy and Susan Borowitz for NBC.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Times Square Two

The Times Square Two was a two man act of music, comedy, acting and juggling.

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The Wanderers (1979 film)

The Wanderers is a 1979 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Toni Kalem, Tony Ganios and Jim Youngs.

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Tim Reid

Timothy Lee Reid Sr. (born December 19, 1944) is an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–82), Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon (1983–87), Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister (1994–99) and William Barnett on That '70s Show (2004–06).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samm-Art_Williams

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