Wilson, Lanford - Lanford Wilson with John L. DiGaetani (interview date 1991)
Lanford Wilson with John L. DiGaetani (interview date 1991)
SOURCE: Wilson, Lanford, and John L. DiGaetani. “Lanford Wilson.” In A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights, edited by John L. DiGaetani, pp. 286-93. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
[In the following interview, Wilson talks about his literary influences, his principal themes, his attraction to the theater, his relationship with Tennessee Williams, and his use of homosexuality in his plays.]
Lanford Wilson was one of the founders of the Circle Repertory Company in New York. He has received the following prizes: a Rockefeller Grant, a Vernon Rice Award, an ABC-Yale Fellowship, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (twice), three Obie Awards, the Outer Circle Award, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Pulitzer Prize.
Wilson's first produced play was So Long at the Fair (1963), first done in New York, followed...
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