Celeste Bedford Walker

CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER is arguably one of our finest contemporary playwrights: a finalist in the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for outstanding work by a female playwright; winner of a Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award; winner of the National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award; and a finalist in the 38th Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. In 2022, Walker was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement.

CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER is arguably one of our finest contemporary playwrights: a finalist in the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for outstanding work by a female playwright; winner of a Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award; winner of the National Black Theatre's August Wilson Playwriting Award; and a finalist in the 38th Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. In 2022, Walker was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement. See less