Gunplays: Five Plays on Inner City Violence and Guns

Gunplays is a series of five plays by William Electric Black addressing inner city violence and guns. The idea of these plays is to generate understanding of the social forces behind this scourge that our society has so far been helpless to resist.

About the Author
William Electric Black, aka Ian Ellis James, is a seven-time Emmy Award-winning writer in the children's TV world. His credits include PBS (Food Thoughts), Sesame Workshop (Sesame Street), Nickelodeon (Allegra's Window), Lancit Media (Backyard Safari), Topstone Productions (Puzzle Place), and many more. In 2021, his half-hour project, Rap-U-Cation, was optioned by FarView Entertainment. He was also hired by FarView to develop their new show, Dragon Clouds. His development of a Sesame Street-like in-school program for 5-6-year-olds, A Gun Is Not Fun, has recently been featured by NPR, ABC6, AP NEWS Chicago, The Tokyo Times, and NBC. https: //www.npr.org/2022/06/07/1103391896/how-the-arts-can-help-children-think-about-gun-violence