Aishah Rahman (November 4, 1936 – December 29, 2014) was an American playwright, author, professor and essayist.
At Brown, Rahman worked to edit and create an anthology of plays from the university entitled NuMuse.
[4] Having grown up in Harlem, Rahman felt strongly connected to the people and the movement for a "black aesthetic," as she calls it.
She credits Adrienne Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, Sam Shepard, Federico García Lorca and Bertolt Brecht as her literary influences.
[8] She released her memoir, titled Chewed Water, in 2001 about her childhood in the Harlem foster care system.