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About Playwright Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri in 1937. He is the author
of 17 full-length and over 30 short plays. He has received numerous awards
including the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, The Institute of Arts and Letters
Award, four Obies, two New York Drama Critic's Circle Awards and the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama. He was one of four founders of The Circle Repertory Company
and was resident playwright there from 1969-1995.
His plays include So Long at the Fair;
Home Free!; The Madness of Lady Bright; This is the Rill Speaking;
The Rimers of Eldritch; The Gingham Dog; Lemon Sky;
Serenading Louie; THE HOT L BALTIMORE; The Mound Builders;
Fifth of July; Talley & Son; Talley's Folly; Balm in Gilead;
Angels Fall; Burn This; Redwood Curtain; Book of Days;
Sympathetic Magic and Rain Dance. He has translated plays,
including The Three Sisters and Ghosts, written the teleplays
Taxi! and The Migrants and wrote the libretto for Lee Hoibe's
opera of Summer and Smoke. He is a member of the theatre group
Circle East and is on
the Dramatists Guild Council.
Wilson has made his home in Sag Harbor, NY since 1970.
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