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Stanley Bennett Clay

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March 18, 1950 in Chicago, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Gay & Lesbian

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Stanley Bennett Clay received 3 NAACP Theatre Awards and 3 Drama-logue Awards for writing, directing and co-producing the stage play “Ritual.” He made his film writing/directorial debut with the film version, which was voted the Jury Award at the 2000 Pan African Film Festival.

He wrote the plays “Lovers” (Theatre of Arts), wrote and composed the musical “Street Nativity” (Celebrity Centre Theatre), and wrote and starred in “Armstrong’s Kid” (Roy Arias Off-Broadway Theatre/NY).

He directed the west coast premiere of the play “Jonin’” (Estelle Harmon Theatre, Drama-logue Award/Direction), produced the GLAAD award-winning “Children of the Night” (Ebony Showcase Theatre), and produced the world premiere of “Willie & Esther” which was a Los...more Stanley Bennett Clay received 3 NAACP Theatre Awards and 3 Drama-logue Awards for writing, directing and co-producing the stage play “Ritual.” He made his film writing/directorial debut with the film version, which was voted the Jury Award at the 2000 Pan African Film Festival.

He wrote the plays “Lovers” (Theatre of Arts), wrote and composed the musical “Street Nativity” (Celebrity Centre Theatre), and wrote and starred in “Armstrong’s Kid” (Roy Arias Off-Broadway Theatre/NY).

He directed the west coast premiere of the play “Jonin’” (Estelle Harmon Theatre, Drama-logue Award/Direction), produced the GLAAD award-winning “Children of the Night” (Ebony Showcase Theatre), and produced the world premiere of “Willie & Esther” which was a Los Angeles Times Critics’ Choice and won 2 L.A. Weekly Awards, including Best Play.

As an actor, Clay starred, guest-starred and was featured in more than fifty TV and film productions including “Good Times,” “Cheers,” “Minstrel Man,” James Michener’s Dynasty,” “Cannonball” and “All The President’s Men.” On stage, he did leads in “Zooman and the Sign” (Drama-logue Award/NAACP Image Award Best Actor nominee) “Anna Lucasta” (NAACP Image Award Best Actor winner) and “Six Pieces of Musical Broadway” (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion). He also appeared in Albert Camus’ “Caligula” (Zodiac Theatre) Bill Duke’s “Sonata” (Theatre of Arts) and “A Hatful of Rain” (Argo Repertory Company).

He’s the author of three novels: “Diva” (Holloway House), “In Search of Pretty Young Black Men” (Atria) and “Looker” (Atria). “Search” won the 2005 New York HOTEP Society Award for Best Gay Novel. He also co-authored “Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris.”

For ten years (1991-2001) he edited and published SBC Magazine, then the most widely distributed national monthly for the Black LGBT community. He received Genre Magazine’s Life Guard Award, The National Black Writers’ Founder’s Award, the first Black Gay and Lesbian Cultural Alliance Award, the 2008 Oakland Black Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Blatino Oasis 2010 Award for Literature, and the Indianapolis Black Pride/Brothers United Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature.
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Author Rashid Darden betters himself considerably with Covenant, the sequel to his debut novel Lazarus. In a story that is sweet and sexy, poignant and though-provoking, funny and sad, the author skillfully continues the journey of our young and affable now-out-of-the-closet hero and narrator Adrian Collins as he traverses college life, fraternal brotherhood, family reconciliations, the pain of... read more »

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	Visible Lives: A Tribute To E. Lynn Harris by Stanley Bennett Clay (Goodreads Author), Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Looker: A Novel 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	In Search of Pretty Young Black Men: A Novel 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Diva 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	White Butterfly by Walter Mosley, Stanley Bennett Clay (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 1992 — 19 editions	My rating:
	A Red Death by Walter Mosley, Stanley Bennett Clay (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.84 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Black Betty (Easy Rawlins Series #4) by Walter Mosley, Stanley Bennett Clay (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 1,240 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions	My rating:

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