Eric Conway: Morgan Associate Professor Nominated For Two Distinguished Awards

Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap

Dr. Eric Conway writes:

Happy New Year Morgan Fine and Performing Arts Community!

I am excited to share with you that Morgan Fine and Performing Arts Associate Professor and Coordinator of Theatre Arts, Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap, was nominated for two distinguished awards.  Dr. Dunlap was recently inducted into the National Theatre Conference, a professional society of directors.  Dr. Dunlap was also nominated for Best Director from this year’s Broadway World Regional Awards.  Please see article and link to article below.  

Shirley, you make us proud at Morgan! Congratulations!

EC

http://m.baltimoretimes-online.com/news/2019/jan/04/morgan-associate-professor-coordinator-theatre-art/

Dr. Brenda Bowe Johnson

1/4/2019

Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap of Morgan State University (MSU) was inducted into The National Theatre Conference at the historic Gramercy Park Mansion. The Players, a private social club founded in New York City by the noted 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, recently. 

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Theatre Arts in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Morgan, Dr. Dunlap was nominated by Black Theatre pioneer Woodie King, Jr. and Baltimore’s Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Artistic Director Ian Gallanar. 

The New York Theatre Conference, a professional society founded in 1925, is made up of distinguished directors, playwrights and theatre scholars from the American Theatre community. Its purpose includes exploring ways of best serving the interests of the American Theatre, and to initiate, encourage and support projects of value and significance with a view to strengthening and broadening the influence of theatre as well as to connect, to support and to advocate for the American Theatre.

Dr. Dunlap also received a nomination for Best Director from this year’s Broadway World Regional Awards for the play “Red Velvet,” produced by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. “Red Velvet” is a ‘bioplay’ based on the life of Ira Aldridge, an African American Shakespearean actor. 

Broadway World is an online news service, based in New York City, which provides daily coverage of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional and international theatre productions.

Dr. Dunlap will direct the Spring 2019 Morgan State Fine and Performing Arts musical production of “Dream Girls.”