a671: Haitian born author

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

>From legrace@twcny.rr.com

Lenelle N. Moise, a senior at Ithaca College, is author of Purple,
currently in
performance at Ithaca's Kitchen Theater.
According to Stephen Landesman's article in the Ithaca Journal, the play
began
as a fiction assignment at Ithaca College, and blossomed into this
theatrical
offering aimed especially at a teen audience.

In her home city of Cambridge, Mass., she was active in helping to create
a
drama curriculum for the Cambridge Schools Sisters Group, "a tuition-free
program for underpriveleged girls from various ethnic background living in
Cambridge."  She also worked for the Arts & Civic Dialoge project in
Cambridge and served as a liaison to the administration of Cmabridge
Housing
Authority.

Landesman notes her three previous plays, books of poetry, and winning the
Ithaca Grand Poetry Slam in 2000.

Purple, funded in part by a grant from the Saltonstall Foundation for the
Arts,
concerns the struggles of a girl of 15, bi-racial and trying find a way to
be
herself and at the same time fit into a small-town community.

Lenelle Moise was born in Haiti but came to the United States as ayoung
child,
growing up in Cambridge.
Headline over her picture: "Purple" Paints outside the Lines.
Congratulations, Lenelle Moise