Awards
Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance,
Ann and Steve Bailey Opportunity Grant
2021
For Project Support
Creative Capital
Artist Fellow
2019
For Musical Theater
Women of the Year 2017-2019
Iota Phi Lambda Sorority,
Alpha Xi Chapter
2017-2019
For Leadership
East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame
2018
For Playwriting
Doris Duke Foundation Theater Fellows Award
2015
For Theater
Creative Exploration Fund Fellowship
2009
For Theater
Carson-Newman College Education Service to Appalachia Award
2008-2009
For Education
Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre
2005
For Political Theater
Circle of Change Awards – Heart of Change Award
2005
For Art and Activism
Long Haul Award – Tennessee Alliance for Progress
For Art and Activism
Arts Council of Greater Knoxville, Artist of the Year
1999
For Art
Professional Organizations
Open Channels: Caribbean Popular Theater at the Crossroad.
An online encounter as part of the Teatro Ma Cuba’s 40th Annual Teller de Teatro Popular
Advisor
(Current)
Women Playwrights International (WPI)
Senior Advisor
(Current)
NEFA
(New England Foundation for the Arts)
Advisor
(Current)
NET
(Network of Ensemble Theaters)
Board Member
(Former)
Alternate ROOTS
Founding Board Member
The Knoxville Arts and Cultural Alliance
Board Member
(Former)
NPN
(National Performance Network)
Southern Regional Representative
Board Member
(Former)
WOCA
(Women of Color in the Arts)
Member
Press
VA Suicide Prevention Team Leader, Lynne Santiago
“I’d like to thank Linda, Andrea and their colleagues (The Carpetbag Theatre and Alternate ROOTS) for the incredible work they are doing with our veterans. I have witnessed how their veteran program has inspired and effected positive change in veterans who are challenged with mental illness. I know they are making a difference.”
NEFA 2020 National Theater Project Advisors
April 15, 2020
"NTP is thrilled to welcome four new advisors: Pia Agrawal, Micah Ariel James, Edgar Miramontes, and Linda Parris-Bailey. We are so excited to work with these amazing individuals! Thank you in advance for all that you do for NTP and the field!"
Curating Freedom and Power for Women of Color in Leadership
An Interview with Diane Rodriguez &
Linda Parris-Bailey
September 26, 2019
"We pass the same point many times in our lives but hopefully we’re a little further expanded. That expansion is what makes progress and what gives me hope for the future. We’ll hit this same point in time but we’ll hit it with an expanded knowledge and more experience."
-Linda Parris-Bailey
Moral Injury Killed My Cousin
by VA Suicide Prevention Team Leader, Lynne Santiago
[on Speed Killed My Cousin] "We learn, through the powerful monologues and the dialogue between the characters, that true healing begins from a willingness and ability to tell the story about what happens in war. And we are shown, quite effectively, the generational impact of keeping these secrets.”
SWOPERA :: Behind The Scenes of the Spoken Word Opera
Knoxville Weekend
SWOPERA tells a contemporary story of gentrification, one family’s efforts to save their business, Lowell’s Soulfood Cafe, in light of changing community dynamics, and finding unexpected leadership in the youngest member of the family, Lem. The text is delivered in spoken word, poetry and rhyme, accompanied by elements of hip-hop and soul.
Q&A: Linda Parris-Bailey, Winner of the 2015 Doris Duke Artist Award in Theatre
April 29, 2015
“Writing for the theater doesn’t seem as singular as writing in any other medium—it lends itself to working with people and sharing stories and that’s always been attractive to me.”
'River' author's 'refereeing' pays off
May 25, 2008
Another River Flows "follows local blacks who settled nurturing neighborhoods, fought urban renewal and are uniting a divided community through tales of feisty faith. Parris-Bailey weaves a kind of Joseph's technicolor coat from archived and collected stories, some of which are spoken by the Spirit Kissed Women, a Greek chorus of soul sisters. She's more than a playwright; she's a referee for cheerleaders for the revolution."
Funders
