First Name
Denise
Middle Name
Joylinn
Last Name
Hart
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Job Title
Professor
Biography
Denise J. Hart holds an MFA in Playwriting from Sarah Lawrence College and serves as the area coordinator of Playwriting at Howard University where she's a tenured Full Professor advising Playwriting/TV&Film students. Hart is also a graduate of Howard University’s BFA Acting program. She studied scriptwriting at Script Academy in Los Angeles CA and has studied comedy writing at Second City Chicago and Upright Citizens Brigade NYC.
Named the 2018 Outstanding Associate Professor in the Division of Fine Arts, in addition to teaching at Howard University, Hart was honored to be named the 2019 Visiting Professor at St. Mary's College in the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies and has also taught at American University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
Hart is the recipient of several national playwriting honors and awards, Her award winning plays include: This Joy, (a former finalist in both The Lark and the Eugene O’Neill, Nothing to Lose (finalist 2018 Bay Area Playwrights, former finalist in the Black and Latino Playwrights Conference) Sistah Girl, Masquerade Parade, Ring the Bell, My Soul is a Witness (winner of ECTC playwriting competition), The Last Day, In the Realm of Shadows, Chasing Forever, Peace Declared, A Real Black Comedy and National Playwrights competition). Hart is also a screenwriter and is a former recipient of the AJJAP award for screenwriting.
Her production dramaturge credits include: Jitney (recipient of the 2019 Memphis Ostrander Award for Best Production), Milk Like Sugar, Sweet Charity, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Day of Absence(ACTFestival Outstanding Acting Ensemble Award), Zooman and the Sign, Malcom. Martin & Medgar, Breath Boom and both Quick Stop at the Florist and Secret Mist of the Blue for the DC Queer Festival.
In her spare time, Hart likes her fair share of solitude to feed her voracious reading habit and she enjoys chatting about how to make the world a better place. She also enjoys painting, bike riding, interior decorating and exploring the world around her. Her son Julian is her creative inspiration.
Named the 2018 Outstanding Associate Professor in the Division of Fine Arts, in addition to teaching at Howard University, Hart was honored to be named the 2019 Visiting Professor at St. Mary's College in the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies and has also taught at American University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
Hart is the recipient of several national playwriting honors and awards, Her award winning plays include: This Joy, (a former finalist in both The Lark and the Eugene O’Neill, Nothing to Lose (finalist 2018 Bay Area Playwrights, former finalist in the Black and Latino Playwrights Conference) Sistah Girl, Masquerade Parade, Ring the Bell, My Soul is a Witness (winner of ECTC playwriting competition), The Last Day, In the Realm of Shadows, Chasing Forever, Peace Declared, A Real Black Comedy and National Playwrights competition). Hart is also a screenwriter and is a former recipient of the AJJAP award for screenwriting.
Her production dramaturge credits include: Jitney (recipient of the 2019 Memphis Ostrander Award for Best Production), Milk Like Sugar, Sweet Charity, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Day of Absence(ACTFestival Outstanding Acting Ensemble Award), Zooman and the Sign, Malcom. Martin & Medgar, Breath Boom and both Quick Stop at the Florist and Secret Mist of the Blue for the DC Queer Festival.
In her spare time, Hart likes her fair share of solitude to feed her voracious reading habit and she enjoys chatting about how to make the world a better place. She also enjoys painting, bike riding, interior decorating and exploring the world around her. Her son Julian is her creative inspiration.
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Language(s) spoken
English
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Yes