1. Alva Rogers was born on 1959 and is an American playwright, composer, actor, vocalist, and arts educator.
14 Facts About Alva Rogers
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Alva Rogers is known for the use of dolls and puppetry in interdisciplinary work.
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Alva Rogers has a bachelor's degree in American history from Marietta College.
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Alva Rogers has been a part of numerous notable artist collaborations.
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Alva Rogers created audio recordings for Whitfield Lovell's work Whispers from the Walls.
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Alva Rogers performed on their debut EP Blessing and Curse, and their first full-length album Hope Against Hope.
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Alva Rogers appeared on the cover of Essence Magazine beauty issue in January 1993.
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Alva Rogers has been photographed by photographer Lyle Ashton Harris and Dawoud Bey.
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Alva Rogers was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook Women Playwright retreat on Whidbey Island, Washington in 2011 that culminated in a reading of her work at ACT Theater.
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In 1988, Alva Rogers played Doris Witherspoon in Spike Lee's film, School Daze about intra-racial prejudice in HBCU academia.
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In 1991, Alva Rogers appeared in Julie Dash's film Daughters of the Dust.
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Alva Rogers appeared as herself in the film Brooklyn Boheme, which documented the New Black Arts Movement in Fort Greene in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Alva Rogers is featured in Kerry James Marshall's film The Doppler Incident and was a frequent subject in the photographs of Lorna Simpson.
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Alva Rogers has won grants from the Jim Henson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting in 2004, and the Rockefeller Foundation.