Calvin Ramsey

	Born in Baltimore, Maryland Lives and works in New York and Sarasota, Florida
Education
		Studied at UCLA Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop
Exhibitions
		Seeing In Tempo: Photography, June Kelly Gallery, New York St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Island St. John, U.S. Virgin Island
Author
		Authored 12 plays and 2 children’s books
	2013	Public radio show “Travel with Rick Steves” interview about the “Green Book,”airing over 170 stations across the USA
	2010	“Ruth and The Green Book,” the picture book inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film, “The Green Book.”
Productions
	2007	Musical “Bricktop,” a cabaret-style look at the life of Ada “Bricktop” Smith, self-described performer and saloonkeeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, San Francisco, CA
	2006	Musical, “Bricktop” opened Southwest Arts Center, Atlanta, GA; had a nine-week run at Metro Stage, Washington, D.C. “Canada Lee” chosen for a Play Lab at the Edward Albee Great Plains Theater Conference, Omaha, Nebraska
	2005	“Canada Lee,” Ramsey’s exploration of complex career of African American actor and civil rights activist, read at National Black Theater Festival, Winston- Salem, NC “The Green Book,” a two-act play about difficulties African Americans faced traveling during the Jim Crow era, World Premier, Atlanta, GA. Read at Yale University and LaMaMa, Manhattan East Village “Shermantown, Baseball, Apple Pie, and the Klan,” Stone Mountain, GA. venue
	2004	Finalist, 12th Annual Last Frontier Theater Conference, Valdez, Alaska, critiqued by playwrights, actors, and directors, including Edward Albee, Tony Kushner, Lloyd Richards, Courtney Vance, and Patricia Neal
Awards
	Jane Adams Award for “Ruth, The Green Book,” and “Belle, The Last Mule at Gees Bend” Bank Street College Best Book Star Review School Library Journal Texas Blue Bonnet Forward Magazine Best Book ALA Notable Book Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice
Membership
	Georgia Council for the Arts Theater Panel Advisory Board of Emory University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections Woodruff Library, Atlanta, GA National Arts Club, New York Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY Former Bronx Museum of the Arts Trustee, NY