Shauneille Perry Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Family

“Black Beauties: 100 Years of African Women on Broadway,” a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, was written by her and presented at the Lamb’s Theatre in New York City. [March 2003]

Although Shauneille Perry’s most visible credits were for her adaptation of the John Henry Redwood play “Old Settler” (see _Old Settler, The (2000) (TV)_), Perry is a veteran director of the New York City theatre community and has a long and impressive list of credits, most often produced at New York’s New Federal Theatre, that include her direction of: J. e. Franklin’s Drama Desk Award-winning play “Black Girl”; “Jamimma” & “African Interlude” both by Marta-Evans Charles; “Prodigal Sister” by J. e. Franklin and Micki Grant and Grant’s “Looking Back”; “Trouble in Mind” by the noted and trendsetting Harlem Renaissance playwright Alice Childress; “Keyboard” by Matt Robinson; “Love” by Carolyn Rodgers; “Who Loves the Dancer” by Rob Penny; “In Bed with the Blues: the Adventures of Fishy Waters by Guy Davis; Vincent Smith’s “Williams and Walker”; “Showdown” by Don Evans; and “The Balm Yard” by Don Kinch which featured actress Roxie Roker.

After actress/director Vinnette Carroll, Perry became the first major Black woman director in the New York Theatre community of the 1960s.