Biography
Lonnie Carter received a 2003 Obie Award for his play The Romance of Magno Rubio, produced by the Ma-Yi Theatre Company. His plays also include China Calls, The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, The Gulliver Plays (Lemuel, Gulliver, and Gulliver Redux, published by Broadway Play Publishing), Baby Glo, Wheatley (the Colonial HippeHoppe story of Phillis Wheatley), Concerto Chicago, and most recently The Lost Boys of Sudan, commissioned by the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis (Tony Winner for Best Regional Theatre 2003). His home theater in Chicago is Victory Gardens (Tony Winner for Best Regional Theatre 2001), and his home theatre organization in New York is New Dramatists. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Marquette University, and twice a Fellow of the National Endowment of the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
