Vinie Burrows

Vinie Burrows (née Harrison; born November 15, 1924[2]) is an award-winning Broadway actress.

Vinie Burrows
Born
Vinie Harrison

November 15, 1924 (1924-11-15) (age 96)[1]

Career

Vinie Burrows graduated from Harlem High School at the age of 15, having already begun her career as a child actress on radio and on stage when she appeared the Broadway play The Wisteria Trees.[3] She later chose to create her own plays and one-woman shows because she felt that the roles available for black women were those of a “Mammie” or “lady of the evening.” Many of her productions were seen on Broadway and in over 6,000 theaters and other venues across four continents. She appeared in a show titled Sister! Sister! at the University of Delaware in Newark in November 1991.[4] She appeared in a reprise of the show titled Sister! Sister! at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center in March 2001.[5] In 2003, she played the role of Barbara Scarlatti in Bel Canto on stage in Atlanta, Georgia.[6] At the University of Iowa in March 2007 she appeared in a show titled Black on the Great White Way: The Story of Rose McClendon.[7]

She was to be a panelist in the 2000–2001 African Diaspora lecture series at the Center for Ideas and Society in Riverside, California.[8] The Black Theater Guild at Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted Burrows for lunch in February 2003.[9]

Activism

Burows has been active at the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the issues of the status of women and Southern Africa.[10] In 1980, she became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).[11] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Awards

Burrows won the Paul Robeson Award in 1986. In 2014, Burrows received an award from the International Communications Association and AUDELCO for her Outstanding Contribution to the Arts and the Community.

In 2018, Burrows was named the honoree at Theater for the New City's 15th annual Love N' Courage gala, where she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award.[12]

References
  1. New York Times article dated Dec. 19, 2019: "Vinie Burrows, who recently turned 95 but rounds that up to 96" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/theater/lois-smith-estelle-parsons-vinie-burrows.html
  2. New York Times article dated Dec. 19, 2019: "Vinie Burrows, who recently turned 95 but rounds that up to 96"" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/theater/lois-smith-estelle-parsons-vinie-burrows.html
  3. Jae Jones, "Vinie Burrows: Award-winning Broadway Actress", Black Then, August 17, 2018.
  4. "Up and coming", UpDate, Vol. 11, No. 9, p. 3 (October 31, 1991). Archived December 23, 2010, at WebCite,
  5. Brandeis University :: News Archived December 23, 2010, at WebCite,
  6. "Bel Canto", TheaterReview, October 13, 2003. Archived December 23, 2010, at WebCite.
  7. http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/events/2007/03/8burrows.shtml
  8. 2000–2001 Academic Year, Ford Grant 2000–
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20050211150301/http://web.mit.edu/bsu/www/meetingnotes/gbm%231notes.htm
  10. Boston Social Forum, July 2004 (see External Links)
  11. "Associates | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". www.wifp.org. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  12. "Actress and Activist Vinie Burrows To Be Honored at Annual NYC Gala", Broadway World, January 10, 2018.
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