Lydia R. Diamond

About

Award-winning author of plays like Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Voyeurs de Venus.

Before fame

She earned a B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Northwestern University.

Trivia

Her play Voyeurs de Venus won a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work.

Family life

She married a Harvard professor named John Diamond.

Associated with

Her play Stick Fly was produced by R&B singer Alicia Keys.