Robert Earl Price

Robert Earl Price is an African American screenwriter, playwright and poet. He is a recipient of the American Film Institute’s William Wyler award for screenwriting, an NEA fellowship for poetry, a Cultural Olympics commission for theater and a Maryland Individual Artist Award. He is a protégée of Oscar-winning director Jan Kadar and Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley. Price is the author of three screenplays, four books of poetry and twelve plays produced in American regional theaters and abroad in Berlin and Johannesburg.