Ifa Bayeza

Ifa Bayeza
Born
Wanda Williams

Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Occupation(s)Plawright, author, producer, stage director
Years active2000–present
RelativesNtozake Shange (sister)
Bisa Williams (sister)
Awards
  • 2010 Backstage Garland Award for Best Playwriting
  • 2009 Edgar Award For Best Play
  • 2007 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference fellowship.
  • Fellowships: 2003 Arna Bontemps Centennial Writer’s Fellowship and the Tuck School Minority Business Executive Program (MBEP)

Ifa Bayeza (born Wanda Williams) is a playwright, producer, and conceptual theater artist.[1] She wrote the play The Ballad of Emmett Till, which earned her the Edgar Award for Best Play in 2009.[2] She is the sister of Ntozake Shange, and directed Shange's A Photograph: Lovers in Motion, which was a part of the Negro Ensemble Company's 2015 Year of the Woman Play Reading Series in New York City.[3]

  1. ^ "Ifa Bayeza - Goodman Theatre". www.goodmantheatre.org.
  2. ^ . August 27, 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120827143408/http://www.mysterywriters.org/files/2009_Edgar_Winners.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 27, 2012. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Ifa Bayeza". web.uri.edu.