| At "Ain't No Mo" Queen Latifah announced to the audience, in a pre-show warm up , that Jordan Cooper was the youngest playwright ever on Broadway. The play "Warp" which played at the Ambassador, an ahead of its time science fiction comic strip extravaganza which had been a success at the Organic Theatre in Chicago, was co-authored by Stuart Gordon (who later became a horror film director) and Lenny Kleinfeld--they were 26 and 25 when the play opened, younger than the 27 year old Cooper. I think there are other examples of younger playwrights.... |
