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Top Dog Diaries: Suzan-Lori Parks
Top Dog Diaries takes an inside look at the creative process and at the challenges, opportunities, and personal milestones Suzan-Lori Parks encounters over two years that lead to the production of her 2002 Pulitzer prize-winning play.
- Series
- Great Performances
- Premiere Date
- October 31, 2002
- Length
- 60 minutes
- Funding Initiative
- Open Call
Producer
Oren Jacoby
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The Film
Top Dog Diaries explores why a writer writes and how a play gets made; it's an inside look at the creative process and at the challenges, opportunities, and personal milestones Suzan-Lori Parks encounters over two years that lead to the production of her 2002 Pulitzer prize-winning play. In behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsals and close-up coverage of Topdog/Underdog in performance, audiences experience theater in a way it isn't usually shown on television and see the triumphant Broadway debut of a writer who continues to take the daring chances that have always defined her work.
