Angela M. Counts - Bio

Angela M. Counts is a playwright, filmmaker, and moving-image artist recognized for her unique combination of theater, documentary, and experimental cinema. She won the Kennedy Center's Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award for her play, "Hedy Understands Anxiety." Her work has been showcased at notable venues like the New York Theatre Workshop and the Alain Locke Gallery for African and African American Art (formerly the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery). Dramatic Publishing Company publishes her plays, and she is included in the "Historical Dictionary of African American Theatre" (2009). Currently, she is collaborating with Dell M. Hamilton on a 3-channel video installation, "Mark, Phillis, Phebe: A Murder Told in 3 Parts."