[DOC] [TLE] August Wilson - Wikipedia [PAR] August Wilson (April 27, 1945  October 2, 2005) was an American playwright 
whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, .... Wilson had a 
long association with the Penumbra Theatre Company of St Paul, which .... 2004 
with Two Trains Running and culminating in 2015 with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
. [DOC] [TLE] August Wilson Biography - Plays Explored African-American Identity ... [PAR] When Wilson began writing his plays, he had little experience with theater, ... The 
play Fences evolved from his seeing an image of a man holding a baby, and Joe 
... Black Horizons on the Hill (theater company), Pittsburgh, PA, co-founder, 1968. 
... Ma Rainey's Black Bottom tapped the playwright's interest in the blues and... [DOC] [TLE] Fences - Shmoop [PAR] Struggling with August Wilson's Fences? ... Along with his friend Rob Penny, he 
founded Black Horizons theatre company in Pittsburgh. ... later he found himself 
at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference with his play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. [DOC] [TLE] August Wilson - U.S. History in Context - Gale [PAR] Co-founded (with Rob Penny) Black Horizons on the Hill, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, theater company, 1968; ... Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 1984; wrote 
Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Fences, 1985; ... During this period, he began 
submitting plays to the National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O'Neill 
Theatre Center in... [DOC] [TLE] From the Archives: Playwright August Wilson Distilled Black America ... [PAR] Oct 5, 2005 ... Wilson won acclaim in 1984 for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," his first play to be ... 
Wilson rapidly earned two Pulitzer Prizes  for "Fences" in 1987 (it also took .... A 
native of Pittsburgh, Wilson grew up as Frederick August Kittel, the ... co-founder 
of a grass-roots theater company, Black Horizons on the Hill. [DOC] [TLE] August Wilson - Visions & Voices: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ... [PAR] Sep 30, 2016 ... Visions & Voices: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: August Wilson ... a series of ten 
plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. 
... In 1968, he co-founded the Black Horizon Theater in the Hill District of ... 
Wilson had a long association with the Penumbra Theatre Company of St... [DOC] [TLE] The Playwright - Seattle Repertory Theatre [PAR] Often called the American Shakespeare, playwright August Wilson is ... In 1968 
he and his friend, Rob Penny, co-founded the Black Horizons Theatre, an African 
American activist theatre company. ... The play that brought Wilson national 
attention was Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which was accepted for the 1982 O'Neill
... [DOC] [TLE] Theatrical Icon, August Wilson | African American Registry [PAR] African American Playwright and Activist. ... In 1968 he founded and directed the 
Black Horizon Theater Company in Pittsburgh in ... Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 
which was developed at the Playwrights Center ... Wilson's next play was Fences. [DOC] [TLE] Pittsburgh Profiles: August Wilson - Pittsburgh's Playwright - Popular ... [PAR] Feb 8, 2016 ... This led to the founding of the Black Horizons on The Hill Theater, which he and 
... In 1984, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, his first play to open on ... He followed that 
with Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the Pulitzer Prize winner Fences. ... From 
writers and business coaches to tech companies, Pittsburgh is... [DOC] [TLE] Paris Review - The Art of Theater No. 14, August Wilson [PAR] In 1968 he was a cofounder of Black Horizons Theater Company, though his 
artistic ... Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, submitted to the Eugene O'Neill Theater 
Center, ... an astonishing careerincluding two Pulitzers (Fences and The Piano 
Lesson) ... I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of 
using the... [DOC] [TLE] August Wilson - Michael O'Hara [PAR] Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano 
Lesson, ... In 1968 he

Question: This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company
Answer: August Wilson