Lanford Wilson

Balm in Gilead

Late-night play set in dangerous inner-city diner portraying urban desperation

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Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson

American playwright and co-founder of Circle Repertory Company, Wilson pioneered an intimate, naturalistic drama centered on outsiders and misfits. Talley's Folly won the Pulitzer Prize. His plays often take place in specific communities—the Ozarks, a Baltimore rooming house—with the texture of lived experience.

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