Lanford Wilson: The Mound Builders

Playwright Lanford Wilson was raised by his mother in Lebanon, Missouri. He was born August 13, 1937 and died March 24, 2011. In 1969, he co-founded the Circle Repertory Theatre in New York, with director Marshall Mason. His plays included Hot L Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, Balm in Gilead, Lemon Sky, The Mound Builders, Book of Days, Burn This, and Rain Dance. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Talley's Folly.was interviewed by Mike Wood in January of 2001 at Jeff Daniels' Purpose Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan and again in March, in St. Louis, Missouri. The interview segments are courtesy of the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas.