Crystal Rhodes
Author
So, you would like to know a little about me. Well, I'm a native of
Indianapolis, Indiana and I honed my craft after moving to the San
Francisco Bay Area where I worked as a reporter, a reviewer, columnist
and an entertainment editor. I've written hundreds of articles, profiles
and interviews for both newspapers and magazines. I also served as the
producer and writer of a weekly cable television series, "Getting
By" as well as served as the producer and hostess of my own Bay
area radio show titled "Bay Arts Beat".
I love writing plays almost as much as I love writing novels. I've written 21
plays, 19 of which have been produced in theatres throughout the United
States. My play, The Trip, has been published in two play anthologies:
Center Stage: An Anthology of 21 Contemporary Black Playwrights
(University of Illinois Press) and Black Women's Blues: A Literary
Anthology, 1934-Present (G.K. Hall & Co.). In 1993 I was nominated
for a L.A. Dramalogue Award as Best Original Writer for a Comedy, for
The Trip, and in 1995 I was thrilled when my play Stoops won the Black
Theatre Alliance Award (BTAA) for Best Play (an ETA Creative Arts
production, Chicago, Illinois). I won the BTAA for Best Original Writing
for Stoops.
I hold a B.A. degree in social
work from Indiana University and a M.A. degree in Sociology from Atlanta
University. I have one child and I live in the Midwest. That's about all
there is to tell you about me except that I love to write.
