Question: Israel Theo Hicks and August Wilson were involved with plays depicting what ethnicity?
Context: The Man Born to Be King is a radio drama based on the life of Jesus, produced and broadcast by the BBC during the Second World War.  It is a play cycle consisting of twelve plays depicting specific periods in Jesus' life, from the events surrounding his birth to his death and resurrection.  It was first broadcast by the BBC Home Service on Sunday evenings, beginning on December 21, 1941, with new episodes broadcast at 4-week intervals, ending on October 18, 1942.  The series was written by novelist and dramatist Dorothy L. Sayers, and produced by Val Gielgud, with Robert Speaight as Jesus. The August Wilson House at 1727 Bedford Avenue in the Crawford-Roberts neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, was built in the 1840s and was the childhood home for his first 13 years of playwright August Wilson (1945–2005).  The house was placed on the List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations on February 26, 2008, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 2013. Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson.  It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948.  The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks.  "Seven Guitars" represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle", a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in "King Hedley II", set in the 1980s. Stephen McKinley Henderson (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor.  He is known primarily for his work onstage, notably in several of August Wilson's plays, but has also made appearances in film and TV. Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name (Wilson died in 2005, but completed a screenplay before his death).  In addition to Washington, the film also stars Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson and Saniyya Sidney. The Piano Lesson is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson.  It is the fourth play in Wilson's "The Pittsburgh Cycle".  Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past".  "The Piano Lesson" received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, "The Pittsburgh Cycle", for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.  Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century. Israel Theo Hicks (August 23, 1943 – July 3, 2010) was an American theatre director who produced works at regional theaters around the country and Off Broadway, and was best known for his stagings of the entire series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the U.S. during and following the Great Migration. Radio Golf is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the final installment in his ten-part series, "The Century Cycle".  It was first performed in 2005 by the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and had its Broadway premiere in 2007 at the Cort Theatre.  It is Wilson's final work. Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson.  Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle".  Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, "Fences" explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.  The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.  The play was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 1983 National Playwrights Conference and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985.
Answer: African-American