Ira Jeffries
Ira L. Jeffries (20 March 1932–16 July 2010) was an American playwright, journalist, and actress.[1] In 1985, she won the Audelco Theatre Award for excellence in playwriting.[2] She received a Bachelor of Arts in communications at City College of New York in 1987.[3] In 1992, she founded the Kaleidoscope Theater Company for issues relevant to the LGBT community.[1][4] She produced plays at the company in association with WOW Café.[2] She wrote 21 one-act and full-length plays.[3] She both acted in The Watermelon Woman, a 1996 black lesbian romcom, and assisted in the production.[5] She wrote for publications such as B & G Magazine, The New Harlem Magazine, New York Amsterdam News, Womanews and Sappho's Isle.[2][3] Some of her papers are housed at the New York Public Library, and others in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's In the Life Archive.[6][7]
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- ^ a b c "Ira Jeffries photograph collection". OCLC. Archived from the original on 2025-07-17. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ a b c "Ira Jeffries audio and moving image collection: 1982-1997". New York Public Library. Archived from the original on 2025-07-08. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ Williams, Maya (2004-07-20). "HarlemLIVE Internet Publication By The Youth of NYC". HarlemLIVE. Archived from the original on 2004-08-24. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ Anderson, Tre'vell (2016-11-27). "Director Cheryl Dunye on her groundbreaking LGBTQ film 'The Watermelon Woman,' 20 years later". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2025-04-17. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture – NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Archived from the original on 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
- ^ Feiden, Douglas (2013-03-07). "Trove of black gay and lesbian culture, the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive, to be on display at Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2025-07-17. Retrieved 2025-07-17.