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Wendell Edward Carter
BIO
Wendell Edward Carter grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. Educated at Haverford College, Stanford, and Cornell, he turned to playwriting after loss sparked Hurricane House.
He has since written 14 works, among them Revolutionaries and RARA AVIS, and published his debut novel Melting the Snow in 2015. His plays have appeared in NYC, Washington, DC, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Maryland.
Confession (1989):
You might think it an anachronism, African Americans stuck in 'whiteness'. You know, "a fly in buttermilk" and all that. It's not. Far from it. Being trapped in 'white' culture happens to more and more people all the time. I have a cousin who doesn't have a single Euro American friend. Except for coworkers, his whole social world is African American. And then there's me. My life is more that way now. But it didn't used to be. I made it that way. I am a reformed 'snow queen'. It was a journey I'll never forget.
My name is Darryl Reed. I'm 28 years old. I'm 5 feet 9 inches tall, about 170 pounds (most of which is bone and muscle), and have features some have described as African or West Indian. And I'm a full fledged faggot (I know, not PC, but there it goes). Or a black gay man, depending on how you look at it. I've grown up insulated by education, television, and willful ignorance. I became a prisoner of 'white' culture. I was frozen.