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Playwright: Ronald McCants

The Strangest Fruit

Inspired by true stories of Springfield, MO, a detective investigating a star basketball player’s lynching encounters two people who challenge his understanding of race, identity, and history’s legacy.

Biography

RONALD MCCANTS is a first-year MFA Student.  The Strangest Fruit received Honorable Mention for the Kennedy Center's 2008 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and is his debut play at UCSD.  Some of Ronald's plays are: A Poet's Prayer (Winner of the Eleanor Frost Award); Our Mother Rosa; Pure Imagination; Rain, So Blue; Listen, Lord-A Play; and For the Blind.  His plays have been produced at: Dartmouth College, UCSD, and San Diego State University.

 

This festival is made possible by a generous donation from Ken & Ginger Baldwin

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