Publisher's Synopsis
A hilarious satire of race in the glamorous days of Old Hollywood, told via the life of a fictional African-American movie star. From the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
In 1930s Hollywood, Vera Stark is a budding actress in an era where the only roles for African-American women are maids. When she is cast in the same Southern epic as her employer, an aging star grasping at her dwindling career, sparks fly. In 2003, a panel of film buffs meets to discuss Vera Stark's legacy, and discover new insight into exactly how she built her successful forty-year career.
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark premiered at the Second Stage Theater, New York in 2011.
