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Posted by | Ray Cornelius

Atlantan Pearl Cleage has been awarded a three-year residency by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand her work with the Alliance Theatre.

The playwright-novelist already is the Artist-in-Dialogue at the Alliance, where her credits have included “The Nacirema Society Presents…,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” “Flyin’ West” and “What I Learned in Paris,” the world premiere that opened the current season. But as part of the Mellon Foundation’s initiative, she will join the full-time staff, with salary and benefits.

Read the rest of this over at AJC.com

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