Brooks, Avery

LC control no.	no 96019776
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brooks, Avery *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Located	Gary (Ind.) Princeton (N.J.)
Birth date	1948-10-02
Place of birth	Evansville (Ind.)
Affiliation	Rutgers University Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) American Broadcasting Company National Black Arts Festival
Profession or occupation	Actors Producers and directors Narrators
Found in	Sounder, p1992: cassette (Avery Brooks) container (actor, director, musician and teacher) Contemp. theatre, film, and television: v. 16 (Brooks, Avery; b. Oct. 2, 1949, Evansville, IN; actor, teacher, director and choreographer) African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brooks, Avery; actor, radio/television producer/director; born 02 October 1948 in Evansville, Indiana, United States; received Bachelor's degree in arts (1974) and Master's degree in fine arts (1976) from Rutgers University; was a drama teacher and acting coach in the theater department at Rutgers University; plaid at the Public/Anspache Theater in New York (1979); appeared as Paul Robeson in a one-man play in theaters in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. (1982); appeared on PBS's American Playhouse series (1984); appeared in ABC's private eye series Spenser: For Hire (1985); was offered the role of Benjamin Sisko, commander of an interstellar outpost in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; directed an episode of the series, Far beyond the Stars (1998); appeared in American History X and The Big Hit (1998); worked for PBS's Nova series and for Discovery Channel; joined the Shakespeare Theatre Company to play the title role of Othello (2005); collaborated with the Shakespeare Theatre Company for its production of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine (2007)) Wikipedia, 16 Feb. 2022 (Avery Brooks; b. 2 Oct. 1948 in Evansville, IN; grew up in Gary, IN; American actor, director, singer, educator; first African American to receive MFA in acting and directing from Rutgers Univ.; has taught at Oberlin, Case Western Reserve, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers; artistic director of the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta 1993-1996; many acting credits, as well as narration work for documentaries, audio books; lives in Princeton, NJ)