Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson (1937-2011) received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Talley’s Folly. He was a founding member of Circle Repertory Company and one of 21 resident playwrights for the company. His work at Circle Rep includes The Family Continues (1972), The Hot L Baltimore (1973), The Mound Builders (1975), Serenading Louie (1976), 5th of July (1978), Talley’s Folly (1980), A Tale Told (1981), And Angels Fall (1982), all directed by Marshall Mason, and the one-act plays Brontosaurus (1977) and Thymus Vulgaris (1982). His other plays include Balm in Gilead (1965), The Gingham Dog (1966), The Rimers of Eldritch (1967), Lemon Sky (1969) and some 20 produced one-acts. He also wrote the libretto for Lee Hoiby’s opera of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke and two television plays, Taxi! and The Migrants (based on a short story by Tennessee Williams).