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Carolyn Nur Wistrand's plays have been developed and staged in New York City with The Negro Ensemble Company (RISING, MAGDALENA’S CROSSING); New Perspectives (9 STEPS FROM ST. ANNE’S STREET); Love Creek Productions & Open Eye (SECOND COMING); Los Angeles: Bilingual Foundation for the Arts (VIRGINS OF GUADALUPE); Chicago: ICWP (THE GAMBLER’S EARRINGS). Awards in playwriting include: 2011: Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting, Castillo theatre, New York City (RISING), 2010: Finalist, Echo Theatre’s National Women’s Playwriting Competition, Dallas, Texas (THE GAMBLER’S EARRINGS), 2009: Virtual Theatre, Los Angeles (THE GAMBLER'S EARRINGS). For the African Writer’s Series, she adapted Nawal El Saadawi's novel, Woman at Point Zero and poetry of the late South African political activist, Dennis Brutus. Published plays: Africa World Press (Beauty in Black Performance), One Act Play Depot, Canada (Ida B. and the Lynching Tree, Second Coming, Mean Molly), Carmel Publishers, India (Tahirih). Carolyn lectures in African, African American, and Multicultural Theatre in the Dept. of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint and is the Instructor for New Directions, a contained classroom fostering empowerment in academic achievement for urban high school youth in the Beecher Community School District.

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