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Freshmen Seminar
Research Links
[edit]http://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2008finalprogram.pdf
http://crdl.usg.edu/people/h/howze_samuel/?welcome&Welcome
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10127/1056192-325.stm
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_463590.html
http://www.augustwilsoncenter.org/about/boardbios.php
http://www.news.pitt.edu/news/sala-udin-lecture-pitt-challenges-race-poverty-and-sprawl
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/theater/s_679674.html
http://www.pghplaywrights.com/history
http://www.augustwilsoncenter.org/aacc_pdfs/AugustWilsonBioSketch.pdf
http://postgazette.com/pg/10134/1058044-325.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitney_(play)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Richmond_High_School
Early Life
[edit]Sala Udin was originally born Samuel Wesley Howze to William and Mary Howze. He was born on February 20, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is one of eleven children and was raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh. [1] During the urban renewal stages the Hill District suffered, the Howze family was forced out of their home on Fullterton Street and placed into public housing. [2] Upon graduating in 1961 from Port Richmond High School in Staten Island, New York, Udin joined the Freedom Rider movement that same summer. [1]
Udin also served for three years as the president for of the Staten Island chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1964, Udin registered voters in Holmes County, Mississippi, for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. In 1965, Sala Udin, August Wilson, and Rob Penny co-founded the Centre Avenue Poets' Theatre Workshop in the Hill District, Pittsburgh. Along with this workshop, the three men also co-founded the Black Horizon Theater in 1968. [3]
Theatrical Work
[edit]Udin's major theatrical work is that when he starred as Becker in the August Wilson play Jitney in 1982. The play is set in 1977 with Becker, an older man who is well established to the community, as a proprietor of a jitney stand. [4] Jitney was Wilson's first play in his 10-cycle play [5], and it overlooks at least three generations. [6] In May 2008, Sala Udin starred as Holloway in August Wilson's play Two Trains Running. In 2010, Jitney was re-created with actors such as Les Howard, Joshua Elijah Reese, Lonzo Green, Wali Jamal, Kevin Brown, Jonathan Berry, Genna Styles, and Sala Udin. [6] In addition to these two plays, Udin also played in Wilson's plays Ma Rainey, Fences, and The Piano Lesson. [4] Udin is now an August Wilson Center Board member.
- ^ a b "Biography of Sala Udin".
- ^ "Bio of Samuel Howze".
- ^ "Theater Work".
- ^ a b "Play Work".
- ^ "Theater".
- ^ a b "Jitney Review". Cite error: The named reference "jitney" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).