Green, Paul [Eliot] (1894–1981), playwright. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, and educated at the University of North Carolina and at Cornell, he wrote numerous one‐act plays before one of them, The No 'Count Boy (1925), made New York aware of his skills. The following year his first full‐length play, In Abraham's Bosom, won the Pulitzer Prize. His other noteworthy plays include The Field God (1927), The House of Connelly (1931), Roll, Sweet Chariot (1934), the musical Johnny Johnson (1936), and Native Son (1941). Much of Green's early work was looked on as folk plays, stories of the most downtrodden people, often written with explicit or implicit left‐wing attitudes. In 1937 he wrote the first of his outdoor historical pageants, The Lost Colony, which has been presented on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, regularly ever since, except for the years of World War II. Similar pageants followed, including The Common Glory (for Williamsburg, Virginia) and Faith of Our Fathers (for Washington, D.C.). Green also taught drama at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere. Biography: Paul Green, Vincent B. Kenny, 1971.
Paul Green
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Green, Paul, 1894-1981, American dramatist, b. Lillington, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina, 1921. He is known for his realistic plays depicting the lives of blacks and white tenant farmers. His first full-length play, In Abraham's Bosom (1926; Pulitzer Prize) was followed by such works as The Field God (1927), The House of Connelly (1931), Johnny Johnson (with music by Kurt Weill, 1936), and Native Son (with Richard Wright, 1941). Green also wrote short stories and novels. His essays on the theater were collected in The Hawthorn Tree (1943), Dramatic Heritage (1953), and Drama and the Weather (1958).
Bibliography
See his Five Plays of the South (1963); study by B. H. Clark (1974).
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(1894-1981)
| 1926 | In Abraham's Bosom. The North Carolina playwright wins the Pulitzer Prize for this stirring drama of a Southern black man thwarted in his desire to help his race by opening a school. His next play, The Field God (1927), is a domestic tragedy involving a poor farm family. |
| 1931 | The House of Connelly. The first production of the Group Theatre concerns the proletarian redemption of the heir of a declining aristocratic Southern family, through the love of a poor girl. |
| 1934 | Roll, Sweet Chariot. This "symphonic play of the Negro people" dramatizes the downfall of the black shantytown Potter's Field. |
| 1935 | This Body the Earth. Green's problem novel dramatizes the futility of a young man's attempt to escape the desolate fate of a sharecropper. |
| 1937 | Johnny Johnson. An antiwar fantasy with music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950) in his first American musical, the play depicts a pacifist in World War I who sprays the Allied High Command with laughing gas, is sent to a mental asylum, and organizes the patients into a League of World Republicans. In the same year The Lost Colony, the first and most successful of the playwright's symphonic outdoor dramas, is presented with a cast of 150 on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, where it would continue to be staged annually. |
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Paul Green may refer to:
- Paul Green (musician), founder of the Paul Green School of Rock Music
- Paul Eliot Green (1894–1981), American playwright
- Paul Green (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
- Paul Green (Australian politician), Mayor of Shoalhaven City Council
- Paul Green (footballer born 1983), English footballer
- Paul Green (footballer born 1987), English footballer
- Paul Green (journalist), past presenter of British TV news programme London Tonight
- Paul Green (engineer) (born 1924), American electrical engineer
- Paul W. Green (born 1952), U.S. justice
- Paul Green (taekwondo athlete), GB Taekwondo National Team coach and former Olympic taekwondo athlete.
See also
- Paul Greene, Canadian actor
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