Creativity Conversation with playwright Alfred Uhry

Playwright, Atlanta native, and Druid Hills High School graduate Alfred Uhry, best known for his play “Driving Miss Daisy,” will take part in a Creativity Conversation on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. The event is open to the public at no charge, and Uhry’s plays will be available for purchase at the event, with a question-and-answer session and a signing to follow.

Uhry, also a lyricist and screenwriter, will be in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The Rose Library is home to Uhry’s papers, which include photographs, scripts and audio-visual materials.

Gue said the conversation will focus on Uhry’s work, his relationship to Atlanta and the city as it appears in his work, which should be an interesting conversation for Atlanta history buffs.

“I want to talk to him about the city as it was when he was growing up and the time period,” Gue said. “I also want to talk to him about the city as it appears in his work. When you read his work, you can see he has a very sophisticated understanding of Atlanta history.”

“Driving Miss Daisy” premiered onstage in 1987, and Uhry later adapted it into the 1989 film. Uhry has received a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award (both for “Driving Miss Daisy”) and several Tony Awards for his work – the only playwright to win all three awards. Two of his other plays, “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” (1996) and “Parade” (a 1998 musical about Leo Frank), along with “Daisy,” are unofficially referred to as his “Atlanta Trilogy” of plays because all are set in the Atlanta area.

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