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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, Texas, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Texas_Southern_University" title="Texas Southern University">Texas Southern University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Playwright</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1978–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> (2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.celestebedfordwalker.com/">www<wbr />.celestebedfordwalker<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Celeste Bedford Walker</b> is an American playwright. Born and raised in Houston, she has written several plays on African-American history, including <i>Camp Logan</i>, <i>Distant Voices</i>, and <i>Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed</i>. She has won several accolades for her work, including a 2022 <a href="/wiki/Texas_Institute_of_Letters" title="Texas Institute of Letters">Texas Institute of Letters</a> lifetime achievement award and a 2023 <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Celeste Bedford Walker was born in Houston.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her parents were from Black rural communities; her father was from <a href="/wiki/Hallettsville,_Texas" title="Hallettsville, Texas">Hallettsville</a> and her mother from <a href="/wiki/Grapeland,_Texas" title="Grapeland, Texas">Grapeland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Raised in the <a href="/wiki/Third_Ward,_Houston" title="Third Ward, Houston">Third Ward</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she was inspired to go into writing after a librarian at her school introduced her to <a href="/wiki/Langston_Hughes" title="Langston Hughes">Langston Hughes</a> after she asked her if black writers existed.<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_1991_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_1991-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She attended <a href="/wiki/Yates_High_School" title="Yates High School">Yates High School</a>, before moving on to <a href="/wiki/Texas_Southern_University" title="Texas Southern University">Texas Southern University</a> to study English and journalism, as well as a brief career in data processing.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Playwright_career">Playwright career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Playwright career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally interested in writing novels after being inspired by <a href="/wiki/Toni_Morrison" title="Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a>, she then decided to be a playwright when "she was more interested in dialogue".<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After working as an actor at the Black Arts Center in the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Ward,_Houston" title="Fifth Ward, Houston">Fifth Ward</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> she made her playwright debut with <i>Sister, Sister</i> in 1978;<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is about a couple who create a "love square" when they each become interested in <a href="/wiki/Polygamy" title="Polygamy">polygamy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walker, who briefly did research on the <a href="/wiki/Houston_riot_of_1917" title="Houston riot of 1917">Houston riot of 1917</a> after learning about it from her relatives, wrote <i>Camp Logan</i> to raise awareness of the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_1991_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_1991-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It premiered in 1987 at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kuumba_House&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kuumba House (page does not exist)">Kuumba House</a>, before being performed at <a href="/wiki/The_Ensemble_Theatre" title="The Ensemble Theatre">The Ensemble Theatre</a> and outside the state, including in California and New York state.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Curator Steve Davis called the play "a great example of how literature can serve as a way to recover banished history" and noted that it "had a role in sparking an awareness of what happened".<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another work from Walker, <i>Distant Voices</i> (1997), is about Black figures arising from a local cemetery<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lonestar_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lonestar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, she wrote another play named <i>Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed</i>, focused on the <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre" title="Tulsa race massacre">Tulsa race massacre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1990s, she and actor <a href="/wiki/Charles_S._Dutton" title="Charles S. Dutton">Charles S. Dutton</a> started a new production of <i>Sister, Sister</i> in Los Angeles, under the new name <i>Once in a Wifetime</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other works include musicals like <i>Harlem after Hours</i>, <i>Over Forty</i>, and <i>Praise the Lord, and Raise the Roof!</i>; a mystery play called <i>Reunion in Bartersville</i>; and a romantic comedy named <i>Sassy Mamas</i>, which has been widely performed and received several accolades since its 2007 premiere at the <a href="/wiki/Billie_Holiday_Theatre" title="Billie Holiday Theatre">Billie Holiday Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gans_2024_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gans_2024-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is founder of Mountaintop Productions, which became operational in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, <a href="/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University_Press" title="Texas A&M University Press">Texas A&M University Press</a> published an anthology of Walker's plays called <i>Sassy Mamas and Other Plays</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Themes_and_accolades">Themes and accolades</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Themes and accolades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walker's theatrical work was inspired by the Black themes of <a href="/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry" title="Lorraine Hansberry">Lorraine Hansberry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She once called both <i>Camp Logan</i> and <i>Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed</i> "quintessential racial confrontation stories".<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Andrew Dansby described her as "a provocative, entertaining and innovative presence in Houston’s theater scene for decades".<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sandra Mayo said that she "has enriched American theater and ennobled African-American theater", citing her research, subject matter, and writing.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walker was awarded a 2022 <a href="/wiki/Texas_Institute_of_Letters" title="Texas Institute of Letters">Texas Institute of Letters</a> lifetime achievement award.<sup id="cite_ref-Dansby_2023_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dansby_2023-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023, she was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="Guggenheim Fellow">Guggenheim Fellow</a> in Drama and Performance Art.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has also won a <a href="/wiki/NAACP_Theatre_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NAACP Theatre Award">NAACP Theatre Award</a>, as well as awards from <a href="/wiki/AUDELCO" title="AUDELCO">AUDELCO</a> and the <a href="/wiki/International_Black_Theatre_Festival" title="International Black Theatre Festival">International Black Theatre Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gans_2024_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gans_2024-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walker has two children.<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_1991_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_1991-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Sassy Mamas and Other Plays</i> (2023)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sources vary on the exact cemetery: although Mayo noted that this was College Memorial Park Cemetery,<sup id="cite_ref-Mayo_2023_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayo_2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walker herself said in an interview that this was <a href="/wiki/Freedman%27s_Cemetery_(Texas)" title="Freedman's Cemetery (Texas)">Freedman's Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lonestar_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lonestar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Bedford_Walker&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit 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