Stick fly by lydia r. diamond

American playwright (born 1969)

Lydia R. Diamond (born April 14, 1969, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American playwright and professor.

Among her most popular plays are The Bluest Eye (2007), an adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel; Stick Fly (2008); Harriet Jacobs (2011); and Smart People (2016). Her plays have received national attention and acclaim, receiving the Lorraine Hansberry Award for Best Writing, an LA Weekly Theater Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the 2020 Horton Foote Playwriting Award from the Dramatists Guild of America.^[1][2]

She has taught playwriting at DePaul University, Loyola University, Columbia College Chicago, Boston University, and University of Illinois at Chicago.

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She is also a Huntington Playwright Fellow and a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists.

Early life

Lydia Diamond was born Lydia Gartin in Detroit, Michigan in April 1969. After her parents divorced when she was three