Adrienne Kennedy

Adrienne Kennedy is best known for Obie Award winning Funnyhouse of a Negro, a one-act play which premiered in 1964 at the East End Theatre, New York City. Many of Kennedy’s plays are autobiographically inspired. She notably uses surrealism to talk about the African-American experience.

Kennedy was a founding member of the Women’s Theatre Council in 1971, a member of the board of directors of PEN America in 1976–77, and an International Theatre Institute representative in Budapest, Hungary, in 1978.