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Bil Wright
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Bil Wright

Bil Wright is an award-winning novelist and playwright. His novels include Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy (Lambda Literary Award and American Library Association Stonewall Book Award), the highly acclaimed When the Black Girl Sings (Junior Library Guild selection), and the critically acclaimed Sunday You Learn How to Box. His plays include Bloodsummer Rituals, based on the life of poet Audre Lorde (Jerome Fellowship), and Leave Me a Message (San Diego Human Rights Festival premiere). He is the Librettist for This One Girl’s Story (GLAAD nominee) and the winner of a LAMI (La Mama Playwriting Award). An associate professor of English at CUNY, Bil Wright lives in... Read full bio

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PRLog, October 23, 2012
...the careers of many YA writers, including three-time National Book Award Honoree and Michael Printz Honoree Marilyn Nelson, Bil Wright Winner of the Stonewall Award, as well as Sundee Frazier—a Coretta Scott King Award winner, an Oprah Book Pick and an...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 28, 2012
...recently published titles, which center around ethnic minority and/or LGBT teens: Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright, which features an iconic, silhouette design; Angela Johnsons A Certain October, which has a single photographic image of a...
ALA, June 12, 2012
...American History),” Beacon Press, 2011), and Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Award winner Bil Wright (“Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy,” Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011). Honor book authors will also be in attendance. Attendees...
Examiner.com, June 5, 2012
...Ernesto Javier Martínez, Duke University Press LGBT Children’s/Young Adult - Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, by Bil Wright, Simon & Schuster LGBT Drama - A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw, by Peggy Shaw, University of Michigan...
PRLog, October 23, 2012
...the careers of many YA writers, including three-time National Book Award Honoree and Michael Printz Honoree Marilyn Nelson, Bil Wright Winner of the Stonewall Award, as well as Sundee Frazier—a Coretta Scott King Award winner, an Oprah Book Pick and an...
Broadway World, October 3, 2012
...issues and our concerns. Its 2010 Festival production of the musical This One Girl’s Story, book by Bil Wright, music & lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney, is the recipient of a 2011 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Best Off-Off Broadway production. The...
PublishersWeekly.com, September 28, 2012
...recently published titles, which center around ethnic minority and/or LGBT teens: Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright, which features an iconic, silhouette design; Angela Johnsons A Certain October, which has a single photographic image of a...
TheaterMania, July 10, 2012
...Williams (© David Gordon) Casting has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival developmental reading of Bil Wright and Joseph-Vernon Banks' The Sugar Hill Sisters, to take place July 20 and 22 at the 45th Street Theatre - Upstairs....
Broadway World, July 10, 2012
...presents The Sugar Hill Sisters, a new musical with book and lyrics by the Lambda and Stonewall Award-winning Bil Wright and music by Joseph-Vernon Banks (Girlfriends!). The reading will be directed by Jade King Carroll (Assoc. director of Broadways...
TheaterMania, June 21, 2012
...by Michael Kutner and Alexander Sage Oyen (July 12, 14); The Sugar Hill Sisters by Joseph Vernon-Banks and Bil Wright (July 20, 22); Erica Glenn's The Weaver of Raveloe (July 11, 14); and Zelda by Colette Silvestri and Arthur Turner (July 24, 27)....
ALA, June 12, 2012
...American History),” Beacon Press, 2011), and Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Award winner Bil Wright (“Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy,” Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011). Honor book authors will also be in attendance. Attendees...