Charles Fuller

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Born March 5, 1939), Charles H. Fuller Jr. (born March 5, 1939) is an African American playwright best known for his script A Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Early life

Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 5, 1939, the son of Charles H. Fuller, Sr., and Lillian Anderson. He attended Roman Catholic High School and then Villanova University (1956–1958), then joined the United States Army in 1959, serving in Japan and South Korea. In 1962, he left the military and later attended La Salle University (1965-1977), earning a DFA. In addition, he co-founded the Afro-American Arts Theatre in Philadelphia.

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Career

After realizing that his high school's library had no books by African-American authors, Fuller vowed to become a writer. He received a critical note in 1969 with The Village: A Party, a drama about racial tensions between a group of mixed-race couples. He wrote scripts for Henry Street Settlement Theatre and the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, which have appeared in several of his plays. The Brownsville Raid, based on the Brownsville Affair, which resulted in the break of black soldiers and white civilians in Brownsville, Texas, in 1906, which resulted in the dismemberment of a whole black regiment, which was later pardoned in 1976.

In 1980, Fuller received an Obie Award for Zooman and The Sign, a black Philadelphia teen who murders a teenage girl on her own front porch and whose neighbors retaliate against him after being told that they had been tricked out of their apathy by the girl's father with a sign. Zooman's appearance as a helpless member of his family, but his victim's father informs their neighbors that they must stand together and gain justice.

A Soldier's Play, Fuller's newest work, told the tale of a black captain's racially charged hunt for a black sergeant on a Louisiana army base in 1944 as a way to investigate blacks in white society. Although the production lasted a long time, Fuller said it never appeared on Broadway because he refused to remove the last line, "You'll have to get used to black people being in charge." It was nevertheless a critical success, winning Fuller's Prize in 1982 and 1984's film A Soldier's Story, for which Fuller wrote the screen version. His screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Writer's Guild Award of America, and it received an Edgar Award.

Fuller shifted his attention to movies after this performance, saying, "I always wanted to please the most people with my work." "Not enough people go to the theater." David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood co-starred in the production's Broadway debut in January 2020, directed by Kenny Leon. It was 58 performances before the COVID-19 pandemic closed on March 11, 2020, when Broadway theaters were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the fact that it had never appeared on Broadway before, the production was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play at the 74th Tony Awards. The Tony nominating committee had deemed A Soldier's Play a masterpiece, but the committee had also found that, although this was the play's first Broadway performance, Fuller would also be included in the play's nomination, if the play were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Fuller received a Tony Award for A Soldier's Play almost 40 years since its debut in 1988. He wrote other works for the stage, but they were not widely acclaimed.

In a 1982 interview, Fuller outlined his methods for raising the African-American cause. "My argument is on the stage." I don't have to be upset to be upset. What is the United Kingdom? It's all out there. There's no reason to move this performance from the stage to the seats. And that does not mean that I am not enraged by injustice, misogyny, or bigotry. It simply means that I can't be enraged all the time. It's ridiculous to spend one's life angry and in the process doing nothing to change it. I could be yelling all day long, but what difference does it make if I am not doing something?"

The Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, the State of New York, and the National Endowment for the Performing Arts awarded full scholarships to Fuller. He also wrote short stories and screenplays and worked as a film director. Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me, a work of children's fiction written for his two sons, was published in 2010. He was a member of the Writers Guild of America's East.

Fuller died of natural causes in Toronto on October 3, 2022, at the age of 83. Claire Prieto, his son, David Ira Fuller, his brother, David Ira Fuller, his sister, Ian Kamau, his daughter-in-law, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren are among his relatives' children who have died.

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