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AUGUST WILSON is the author of Jitney, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, King Hedley II and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African Americans, decade by decade, over the course of the 20th century. Mr. Wilson's work has garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences and The Piano Lesson, a Tony Award for Fences and seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. The cast recording of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom received a Grammy, and Mr. Wilson received an Emmy nomination for The Piano Lesson. Early works include the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Mr. Wilson has received several fellowships and awards, including Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships, a Whiting Writers Award, a 1999 National Humanities Medal from the President of the United States, and numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He's an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Wilson is from Pittsburgh's Hill District and currently makes his home in Seattle. The father of two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen Wilson, he is married to costume designer Constanza Romero.
Bio as of July, 2007.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 2001 - Watch now.
Playwright and Director - September, 1987 - Watch now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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