Shauneille Perry (born July , ) is an American stage director and
playwright. She was one of the first African-American women to direct
off-Broadway.Shauneille Perry was born on July , , in Chicago,
Illinois to a prominent African-American family. She is the daughter
of Graham T. Perry (â€"), one of the first African-American assistant
attorneys-general for the State of Illinois and his wife, the former
(Laura) Pearl Gant (â€"), one of the first African-American court
reporters in Chicago. She is the niece by marriage of real-estate
broker and political activist Carl Augustus Hansberry (who married her
father's sister, Nannie Louise Perry) and his brother, Africanist
scholar William Leo Hansberry. She is also the first cousin of
playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Carl Hansberry's daughter.Perry was
raised on the west side of Chicago, where she graduated from Marshall
High School. Her education continued at Howard University, where she
was a member of the Howard Players under the direction of Owen Dodson.
In , she received a BA in drama from Howard. Her studies followed at
the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at
DePaul University), where she received an MFA in directing. She also
grraduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in .In ,
Perry married architect Donald Ryder in Chicago. Ryder later partnered
with Max Bond Jr. to form the architectural firm Bond Ryder &
Associates.
playwright. She was one of the first African-American women to direct
off-Broadway.Shauneille Perry was born on July , , in Chicago,
Illinois to a prominent African-American family. She is the daughter
of Graham T. Perry (â€"), one of the first African-American assistant
attorneys-general for the State of Illinois and his wife, the former
(Laura) Pearl Gant (â€"), one of the first African-American court
reporters in Chicago. She is the niece by marriage of real-estate
broker and political activist Carl Augustus Hansberry (who married her
father's sister, Nannie Louise Perry) and his brother, Africanist
scholar William Leo Hansberry. She is also the first cousin of
playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Carl Hansberry's daughter.Perry was
raised on the west side of Chicago, where she graduated from Marshall
High School. Her education continued at Howard University, where she
was a member of the Howard Players under the direction of Owen Dodson.
In , she received a BA in drama from Howard. Her studies followed at
the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at
DePaul University), where she received an MFA in directing. She also
grraduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in .In ,
Perry married architect Donald Ryder in Chicago. Ryder later partnered
with Max Bond Jr. to form the architectural firm Bond Ryder &
Associates.
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