Micki Grant(1929-2021)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Micki Grant remains a multi-talented actress/singer/author/composer who
began her theatrical career in a group known as the Center Aisle
Players. She is the author/composer of the award-winning musical "Don't
Bother Me, I Can't Cope" in which she also starred. She made her
Broadway debut as the ingenue in noted poet/playright Langston Hughes'
"Tambourines to Glory". Ms. Grant has appeared in numerous plays and
musicals, on Broadway and in regional theatre, such as "To Be Young,
Gifted and Black", "Brecht on Brecht", "The Cradle Will Rock", Leonard
Bernstein's "Theatre Songs", and "Funnyhouse of a Negro" among them. Of
the multiple shows for which she has been both lyricist and composer,
the most notable, arguably, were "Your Arms Too Short To Box With God"
and "Working" which was adapted from Stud Terkel's book of the same
name. She has been the recipient of Grammy, Drama Desk, NAACP Image,
Outer Critics' Circle, and Obie awards. She performed throughout the
country in the mid-1990s as "Sadie Delaney" in the stage play "Having
Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years". An enduring and
remarkable talent, she additionally has historical significance, having
been one of the first Black daytime contract players on network
television with running performances on soap operas "The Edge of
Night", "Guiding Light", and a seven year run as attorney "Peggy Nolan"
on NBC's "Another World".
