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LANFORD WILSON, playwright

One of the great American playwrights of the 20th Century, in 2009 Lanford Wilson was presented with the LIfetime Achievement Award of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Born in Lebanon, Missouri in 1937, and a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre movements. He won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly. He moved to New York City in 1962. From 1963 his plays were produced regularly at Off-Off-Broadway theatres such as Caffe Cino and La Mama. During this period, his name rocketed onto the New York scene with the controversial BALM IN GILEAD, which premiered in 1965.

He is the author of Balm In Gilead, The Rimers Of Eldritch, The Gingham Dog, Lemon Sky, Serenading Louie, The Hot L Baltimore, The Mound Boulders, Angels Fall, 5th Of July, Talley & Son, Talley’s Folly, Burn This, Redwood Curtain, Trinity, A Sense Of Place Or Virgil Is Still The Frogboy, Sympathetic Magic, Book Of Days and some thirty one act plays.

Sadly, Lanford passed away in spring 2011. His last rehearsals were for Raindogs at Sag Harbor, in October 2010.

Other awards include the The Drama Desk Award for Rimers Of Eldritch, The Drama-Logue Award (Los Angeles) for Talleys Folly and 5th Of July, two New York Drama Critics' awards for Best Play (Hot L and Tallys Folly), 3 Obie Awards for Best Play (Hot L Baltimore, The Mound Builders and Sympathetic Magic), an Obie for Sustained Achievement. Article.