Wilson, Lanford - Lanford Wilson with The Playwright's Art (interview date 20 May 1993)
Lanford Wilson with The Playwright's Art (interview date 20 May 1993)
SOURCE: “Lanford Wilson.” In The Playwright's Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists, edited by Jackson R. Bryer, pp. 277-96. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
[In the following interview, conducted on May 20, 1993, Wilson discusses his writing processes and goals, the production aspect of playwrighting, his literary influences, and his response to critics.]
Lanford Wilson was born in 1937 in Lebanon, Missouri. After attending Southwest Missouri State College briefly and spending a year in San Diego and five years in Chicago, he came to New York in 1962. His initial plays, one-acts, were presented at the off-off-Broadway Caffe Cino. His first full-length play was Balm in Gilead (1965). It was followed by The Rimers of Eldritch (1966), The Gingham Dog (1968), Serenading Louie...
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