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Larry Parr’s plays, beginning with the musical biography of Hattie
McDaniel, HI-HAT HATTIE, have been produced in regional theaters all across
the United States. HI-HAT HATTIE
won Kansas City’s Drama Desk Award for Best Musical.
Mr. Parr was three times a Florida Individual Artist Recipient, for
HI-HAT HATTIE, INVASION OF PRIVACY, and HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW, twice the
winner of Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater’s Annual Play Competition
with MY CASTLE’S ROCKIN’ and SUNDEW, and a winner of Florida Studio Theatre’s
Short Play Competition nine years in a row.
He won STAGES ’93 and the 1994 Porter Fleming Playwriting Competition.
In 1995, he became the first white playwright produced in the history
of the National Black Theatre Festival with the production of MY CASTLE’S
ROCKIN’. INVASION
OF PRIVACY won the 1999 Gold Coast Players best-play award, The National Arts
Club’s Playwrights First Award in Manhattan, The Ashland Oregon New Play
Festival, and Theatre Conspiracy’s New Play Competition.
In 2000, and in 2010, Florida Studio Theatre presented him with the
Barbara Anton Playwriting Award.
The American Cinema Foundation awarded him their first prize for his
screenplay about Hattie McDaniel.
In 2002, he was chosen as a participant in The Floridian Project with a play
about Harry T. Moore. The Sarasota
County Arts Council awarded him the John Ringling Fellowship Grant for HIS EYE
IS ON THE SPARROW. In 2011, The Westcoast Black Theatre commissioned him to write
HI-DE-HI-DE-HO, THE STORY OF CAB CALLOWAY.
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