Reviewer

Kheven Lee LaGrone is a playwright, essayist and curator. He was a 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for his play Pillow Talk (which premiered at Theater Rhinoceros). In 2024, he curated “Black Theatre—Go Home! The Black Arts theater Movement in San Francisco” at the San Francisco Main Public Library which included the panel discussion “The San Francisco Black Theater Movement.” In 2023, LaGrone wrote the biographical liner notes for Peter Barclay’s posthumous album “I’m Not Your Toy.” He also edited a collection of academic and scholarly essays on Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” LaGrone is a San Francisco Bay Area native.