Nilaja sun biography graphic organizer
Below, I provide a chart that offers brief biographical information on all fourteen characters featured in Jones' Bridge and Tunnel.
From Ms Sun's one-woman show are also available on YouTube....
Nilaja Sun
American actor and playwright
Nilaja Sun (born Nilaja Sun Gordon) is an actress, playwright, and a teaching artist from the Lower East Side in New York City.[1] Sun has taught theatre in New York City public schools since 1998 and is best known for her award-winning one-person play, No Child...[1] She is half Puerto Rican and half African-American.[2]
Career
Sun has featured in TV shows and movies, including The Bourne Legacy (2012), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–2006), and 30 Rock (2008–2012).[3]
Her most famous work, No Child..., follows the story of Miss Sun, a visiting teacher in a 10th grade classroom at Malcolm X High School in the Bronx.[4] The one-person play includes 16 characters, a mixture of students, teachers, and administration.
The play was created by Sun based on her eight-year experience with arts education in New York City schools,[5] including at Martin Luther Kin