Ira Jeffries
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Ira L. Jeffries (20 March 1932–16 July 2010) was an American playwright, journalist, and actress.[1] In 1985, she won the Audelco Theatre Award for excellence in playwriting.[2] She received a Bachelor of Arts in communications at City College of New York in 1987.[3] In 1992, she founded the Kaleidoscope Theater Company for issues relevant to the LGBT community.[1][4] She produced plays at the company in association with WOW Café.[2] She wrote 21 one-act and full-length plays.[3] She both acted in The Watermelon Woman, a 1996 black lesbian romcom, and assisted in the production.[5] She wrote for publications such as B & G Magazine, The New Harlem Magazine, New York Amsterdam News, Womanews and Sappho's Isle.[2][3] Some of her papers are housed at the New York Public Library, and others in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's In the Life Archive.[6][7]