Kathleen Collins Scripts collection

1971-1992

Seret Scott is an actress and director, known for her starring role in Kathleen Collins's 1982 film, Losing Ground. She frequently collaborated with Collins, including in the 1982 production of The Brothers at the American Place Theater. She won a 1974 Drama Desk Award for Oustanding Performance for My Sister, My Sister.

Kathleen Collins (1941-1988) was a playwright, filmmaker, director, novelist, short story writer, and professor of film history and production. Collins was the first African American woman to write, direct, and produce a full-length feature film (The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy, 1980, which was based on a Henry Roth novel). Her second feature film, Losing Ground (1982), which she directed and coproduced, was based on her original screenplay; it received international acclaim. Also a playwright, her 1982 play, The Brothers, was named one of the twelve outstanding plays of the season by the Theatre Communications Group. In 1982 and 1983, she was a finalist for the Susan Blackburn International Prize for Playwriting. Although only a small amount of her work was published before her death in 1988, she wrote six playscripts, over fifteen short stories, and five screenplays. Some of this material was published in two posthumous publications, her short story collection, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (2016), and Notes from a Black Woman's Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins (2019).