Charlayne Woodard

Charlayne Woodard (born December 29, 1953) is an American playwright and actress.

Quotes

• I feel like when I do a play the first time it simply let's me know what I have to do. I do all the things, I make all the cuts, and I really see it for the first time…
  • On launching the production of a play for the second time in “An Interview with Charlayne Woodard” in Talkin’ Broadway

• And there is such a difference in the stories that came from when they were in Africa and the ones they told in America, where their lives were so much rougher. And they keep going back and forth between these two worlds, until finally they get to the dawn, and they are somewhat strengthened so that they can keep going…
  • On how her grandfather’s storytelling shaped her writings in “An Interview with Charlayne Woodard” in Talkin’ Broadway

• I also learned how they hungered for education. We take it for granted nowadays, that we get free education. That was major, that they didn't have it, and when they had it they passed it on with whatever they knew. After reconstruction, even if they only had a second grade education, they passed it on. The fact that everyone was hungry to learn to read and write was an amazing thing to realize…
  • On the research that she did regarding slaves in her work Pretty Fire in “An Interview with Charlayne Woodard” in Talkin’ Broadway

• She doesn’t speak like I speak, because something happens to your chords when you look at the neck. Something has happened. But it was that face that really informed who she is. For me, it was all about the physicality. I had to meet that face. And it’s interesting because that face didn’t show up until the day before my first day on the set…
  • On her role in the film Glass and wearing prosthetics in “Charlayne Woodard talks M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, Split, Glass” in Fansided (2019)