| 词条 | Micki Grant |
| 释义 |
|name = Micki Grant |image = Barbara Rodell Micki Grant Another World 1968.JPG |caption = Micki Grant (right) with Barbara Rodell on Another World, 1968 |birth_date = {{bda|1929|6|30}}[1] |birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States |occupation = Actress, composer, writer, singer }}Micki Grant (born June 30, 1929)[2] is an American singer (soprano), actress, writer and composer. She performed in Having Our Say (as Sadie Delaney), Tambourines to Glory and Jericho-Jim Crow, The Gingham Dog, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope and has received three Tony Award nominations for her writing.[1] Early lifeBorn on June 30,1929 in Chicago, Illinois, to Gussie and Oscar Perkins. Oscar was a self taught pianist & master barber, while Gussie worked for Stanley Products. Grant first took piano lessons at the age of eight, and the next year took acting lessons with Susan Porché. After high school, her cousin, film actress Jeni Le Gon took her under her wing when Grant moved out to Los Angeles.[1] Theatre careerWhile in Los Angeles, she was cast in Fly Blackbird by James V. Hatch and C. Bernard Jackson. The show was successful and it moved to New York City, as did Grant. She would graduate Summa Cum Laude from Lehman College.[1] In the early 1960s, she appeared off-Broadway in Jean Genet's The Blacks (with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson), and in Brecht on Brecht, in which she sang (among other things) "Pirate Jenny". In 1964, Grant appeared as "Ella Hammer" in Howard da Silva's off-Broadway revival of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, opposite Jerry Orbach and Rita Gardner. In 1965, Grant became one of the first African-American cast members of a daytime soap opera (preceded by Rex Ingram on The Brighter Day), when she played the role of legal secretary Peggy Harris Nolan on NBC's Another World. She later appeared on ABC's The Edge of Night, replacing Billie Allen as Ada Chandler. Much of her early work was done with director Vinnette Carroll,[3] the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway. They collaborated on Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope and Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, both enjoying critical acclaim and long Broadway runs. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Writing credits
References1. ^1 2 3 "Micki Grant", The HistoryMakers. 2. ^Allen Woll, Dictionary of the Black Theatre, Greenwood Press, 1983, {{ISBN|0-313-22561-3}}, p. 210. 3. ^Bernard L. Peterson, Jr, A Century of Musicals in Black and White, Greenwood Press, 1993, {{ISBN|0-313-26657-3}}, p. 111. 4. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDB48esu1g&t=145s "Micki Grant & Charlayne Woodard"], Dramatists Guild Foundation, 2016. YouTube video. External links
15 : 1941 births|Actresses from Chicago|African-American female composers|African-American composers|American female composers|American musical theatre composers|American musical theatre lyricists|American soap opera actresses|American sopranos|Female opera composers|Grammy Award winners|Lehman College alumni|Living people|Singers from Chicago|Songwriters from Illinois |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。