ABSTRACT
After first achieving fame for his daring satirical play The Colored Museum (1986), George C. Wolfe went on to become a unique force in US theatre as an openly gay Black playwright, director, and producer. In addition to earning ten Tony Award nominations for his direction of plays and musicals on Broadway, including Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1993), Wolfe served as the artistic director of New York’s Public Theater, where he mentored artists like Robert O’Hara and produced groundbreaking LGBTQ plays. His recent work includes writing and directing Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) on Broadway, and directing the film adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020).
