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Yvonne Brewster |
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Jamaican-born
Yvonne went to England to study Drama in 1956. She
is the founder of two theatre companies —
the Barn in Jamaica and Talawa in Great Britain.
She has worked in film, television, radio, drama
schools and universities nationally and internationally
as director lecturer and actor.
A Patron and a Fellow of Rose Bruford College (London),
she is a recipient of the USA National Black Theatre
Festival Living Legend Award. She is also a Licentiate
of the Royal College of Music and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts.
In 1993, she was honored with an OBE for Services
to the Arts; and in 2001 she was granted an honorary
Doctorate from the Open University. Ms. Brewster
is the current Artistic Director of the Jamaica
Music Revue Falmouth theater project. Apart from
editing a series of Black Plays for Metheun, numerous
chapters and articles on Black Theatre in Britain,
her memoir, The Undertaker’s Daughter (BlackAmber
Books) is her first literary work.
Program: Life Sentence
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