Vinie Burrows
Vinie Burrows (Harrison) is an award-winning Broadway actress.
Burows has been active at the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the issues of the status of women and Southern Africa. [1]
In 1959, a Vinie Burrows, possibly identical, commissioned the work of black composer Ulysses Simpson Kay. [2]
Burrows won the Paul Robeson Award in 1986.
She was to appear in a show titled Sister! Sister! at the University of Delaware in Newark in November 1991. [3]
She was to be a panelist in the 2000-2001 African Diaspora lecture series at the Center for Ideas and Society in Riverside, California. [4]
She was to appear in a reprise of the show titled Sister! Sister! at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center in March 2001. [5]
The Black Theater Guild at Massachusetts Institute of Technology expected to host Burrows for lunch in February 2003. [6]
She played the role of Barbara Scarlatti in Bel Canto in September 2003 on stage in Atlanta, Georgia. [7]
She was due to appear in a show titled Black on the Great White Way: The Story of Rose McClendon at the University of Iowa in March 2007. [8]
In 2014, Burrows received an award from the International Communications Association and AUDELCO for her Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and the Community.
References
- ↑ Boston Social Forum, July 2004 (see External Links)
- ↑ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040228111728/http://www.cbmr.org/pubs/kay.htm
- ↑ Up and coming (10-31-91) Archived December 23, 2010, at WebCite
- ↑ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20060904005513/http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fordgrant0001_lect.htm
- ↑ Brandeis University :: News Archived December 23, 2010, at WebCite
- ↑ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20050211150301/http://web.mit.edu/bsu/www/meetingnotes/gbm%231notes.htm
- ↑ www.TheaterReview.com Archived December 23, 2010, at WebCite
- ↑ http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/events/2007/03/8burrows.shtml