![]() ![]() In 1976 Vernell Lillie, founder of the Kuntu Repertory Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh two years earlier, directed Wilson's The Homecoming. Among these early efforts was Jitney ,which he revised more than two decades later as part of his 10-play cycle on 20th century Pittsburgh. ![]() His first play, Recycling, was performed for audiences in small theaters and public housing community centers. In 1968, Wilson co-founded the Black Horizon Theater in the Hill District of Pittsburgh along with his friend Rob Penny. His mother raised the children alone by the time he was five in a two-room apartment above a grocery store at 1727 Bedford Avenue.Īugust Kittel changed his name to August Wilson to honor his mother after his father's death in 1965. Earlier, Wilson's maternal grandmother walked from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in search of a better life. and Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning woman, from North Carolina. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the fourth of six children to German immigrant baker, Frederick August Kittel, Sr. Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, Jr. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. His literary legacy is the ten play series, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. August Wilson was an American playwright. ![]()
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