Loften Mitchell

Loften Mitchell, 1919 - 2001 Loften Mitchell was born in Columbus, North Carolina in 1919, but grew up in Harlem. He studied playwriting at City College, and graduated from Talladega College of Talladega, Alabama. Mitchell earned his master's degree from Columbia University. Mitchell achieved some show more renown with the debut of his play, "A Land Beyond the River", which ran for some 96 performances in a Greenwich theater. Mitchell collaborated with Irving Burgie for "Ballad of Bimshire, wrote "Star of the Morning," and the book "Black Drama." Mitchell also wrote the book "Voices of the Black Theater," which spoke of the rise of the black theater movement. Mitchell was nominated for a Tony Award in 1976 for his book for the musical "Bubbling Brown Sugar," a combination of black music and dance, which played for 776 shows and toured the entire United States. He taught for a number of years at the State University of New York at Binghamton ad was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Loften Mitchell died in Queens, New York on May 14 at the age of 82. show less