Birth Name:

Joseph A. Walker (playwright)

Male

Birth Date:

Sun, Feb 24, 1935

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Washington, Washington, D.C., United States

Age:

89

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

5°

Pis

10'

About Joseph A. Walker (playwright)

Joseph Alexander Walker (February 24, 1935 – January 25, 2003) was an American playwright and screenwriter, theater director, actor and professor. He is best known for writing The River Niger, a three-act play that was originally produced Off-Broadway in 1972 by the Negro Ensemble Company, before being transferred to Broadway in 1973 and then adapted into a 1976 film of the same name starring James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. In 1974, Walker became the first African-American writer to win a Tony Award, receiving the Tony Award for Best Play for The River Niger. The playwright previously won an Obie Award during that play's 1972 to 1973 Off-Broadway run.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Joseph A. Walker (playwright): Sun 5 Pisces, Moon 14 Scorpio, Mercury 20 Aquarius, Venus 28 Pisces, Mars 24 Libra, Jupiter 23 Scorpio, Saturn 1 Pisces, Uranus 28 Aries, Neptune 13 Virgo, Pluto 24 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Trine Mars, Mercury Square Jupiter, Venus Semi Sextile Uranus, Venus Trine Pluto, Mars Semi Sextile Jupiter, Mars Opposition Uranus, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Trine Pluto, Saturn Sextile Uranus, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto

Categories related to Joseph A. Walker (playwright): D.C., February 24 births, 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights, American male dramatists and playwrights, Catholic University of America alumni, 20th-century American male writers, Rutgers University faculty, 2003 deaths, Writers from Washington, Howard University alumni, African-American dramatists and playwrights, 21st-century African-American people, 1935 births, 20th-century African-American writers, African-American male writers

Photo attribution: Dorothy A. Walker, Joseph Walker's private library