Marion McClinton Emergency Fund
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Join this Urgent Donation Effort for our Dear Marion McClinton!
As many of you know, director, playwright, actor, mentor and beloved friend Marion McClinton passed away early Thanksgiving morning. Marion was surrounded constantly by so many friends and family - so much love and light all around him. Given the long tenure of his work at countless theaters around the country and the world, we will continue to celebrate and lift up his incredible legacy, and the generations of artists he's inspired -- and will continue to inspire -- for many years to come.
This page is an opportunity for your support of Marion, and of his family. Over the past year -- and in particular in the past few months -- there have been many outstanding costs to compensate Marion's incredible and generous medical care team who have stood beside him unflinchingly at the hospital and at home, as well as other medical expenses. One of the many ways we're celebrating Marion's life is by sharing this GoFundMe page in support of the artistry he shared with artists and audiences across our theater community. In addition to making a donation to defray these costs, we ask that, if you feel comfortable, you consider sharing the link to this page on email and social media, and to offer your own personal testimony to Marion's brilliant and bold artistry.
More information will be posted about a community celebration. Thanks again for your support.
Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominated, and Broadway legend, Marion McClinton has been most recently concentrated in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, his journey stretches from regional theater in the United States to Broadway and London and includes multiple awards for his work. A close friend and associate of August Wilson, he directed many of his plays, regionally and on Broadway. An original member of Penumbra Theatre, where he first directed Piano Lesson, he also acted and wrote, playing the Narrator in August's first play, Black Bart and the Sacred Hills; Fielding in Jitney, and Gabriel in Piano Lesson. He directed the premiere of King Hedley II, and took it to Broadway, with a cast including Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, Charles Brown and Monte Russell. He also directed Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Drowning Crow on Broadway. In 2000, he won the Obie Awards for the direction of Jitney, and also the Vivian Robinson Audelco Black Theatre Awards. He was an associate artist at Center Stage, and has directed at numerous theaters across the country including the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizon, the Goodman Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Pittsburg Public Theater, the Children's Theater, Missouri Repetory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Pillsbury House Theatre, Mixed Blood, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Jungle Theater and others. His plays include Police Boys, Walkers, Stones and Bones, and more.
As many of you know, director, playwright, actor, mentor and beloved friend Marion McClinton passed away early Thanksgiving morning. Marion was surrounded constantly by so many friends and family - so much love and light all around him. Given the long tenure of his work at countless theaters around the country and the world, we will continue to celebrate and lift up his incredible legacy, and the generations of artists he's inspired -- and will continue to inspire -- for many years to come.
This page is an opportunity for your support of Marion, and of his family. Over the past year -- and in particular in the past few months -- there have been many outstanding costs to compensate Marion's incredible and generous medical care team who have stood beside him unflinchingly at the hospital and at home, as well as other medical expenses. One of the many ways we're celebrating Marion's life is by sharing this GoFundMe page in support of the artistry he shared with artists and audiences across our theater community. In addition to making a donation to defray these costs, we ask that, if you feel comfortable, you consider sharing the link to this page on email and social media, and to offer your own personal testimony to Marion's brilliant and bold artistry.
More information will be posted about a community celebration. Thanks again for your support.
Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominated, and Broadway legend, Marion McClinton has been most recently concentrated in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, his journey stretches from regional theater in the United States to Broadway and London and includes multiple awards for his work. A close friend and associate of August Wilson, he directed many of his plays, regionally and on Broadway. An original member of Penumbra Theatre, where he first directed Piano Lesson, he also acted and wrote, playing the Narrator in August's first play, Black Bart and the Sacred Hills; Fielding in Jitney, and Gabriel in Piano Lesson. He directed the premiere of King Hedley II, and took it to Broadway, with a cast including Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, Charles Brown and Monte Russell. He also directed Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Drowning Crow on Broadway. In 2000, he won the Obie Awards for the direction of Jitney, and also the Vivian Robinson Audelco Black Theatre Awards. He was an associate artist at Center Stage, and has directed at numerous theaters across the country including the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizon, the Goodman Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Pittsburg Public Theater, the Children's Theater, Missouri Repetory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Pillsbury House Theatre, Mixed Blood, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Jungle Theater and others. His plays include Police Boys, Walkers, Stones and Bones, and more.Organizer and beneficiary
E.G. Bailey
Organizer
Marion McClinton
Beneficiary