Crystal Rhodes
Author

So, you would like to know a little about me. Well, I'm a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and I honed my craft after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area where I worked as a reporter, a reviewer, columnist and an entertainment editor. I've written hundreds of articles, profiles and interviews for both newspapers and magazines. I also served as the producer and writer of a weekly cable television series, "Getting By" as well as served as the producer and hostess of my own Bay area radio show titled "Bay Arts Beat".

I love writing plays almost as much as I love writing novels. I've written 21 plays, 19 of which have been produced in theatres throughout the United States. My play, The Trip, has been published in two play anthologies: Center Stage: An Anthology of 21 Contemporary Black Playwrights (University of Illinois Press) and Black Women's Blues: A Literary Anthology, 1934-Present (G.K. Hall & Co.). In 1993 I was nominated for a L.A. Dramalogue Award as Best Original Writer for a Comedy, for The Trip, and in 1995 I was thrilled when my play Stoops won the Black Theatre Alliance Award (BTAA) for Best Play (an ETA Creative Arts production, Chicago, Illinois). I won the BTAA for Best Original Writing for Stoops.