August Wilson is a playwright whose work explores the heritage and experience of African-Americans over the course of the twentieth century. His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the county and on Broadway. Wilson has won Pulitzer prizes for ‘Fences’ (1987) and ‘The Piano Lesson’ (1990), and a Tony
Award for ‘Fences’, as well as New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Fences’ and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’, ‘The Piano Lesson,’ ‘Two Trains Running’ and ‘Seven Guitars.’ He has received several fellowships, including Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwriting and is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists plus a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Wilson makes his home in Seattle, Washington. He is the father of two daughters, Sakina Ansari Wilson and Azula Carmen Wilson, and he is married to costume designer Constanza Romero.
