One Arm
In 1969, Wilson co-founded the Circle Repertory Company with Marshall W. Mason, Tanya Berezin, and Rob Thirkield. Many of Wilson's plays were first produced at the Circle Repertory and directed by Mason. Also in 1969, Wilson was hired for $5,000 to adapt Tennessee Williams' short story "One Arm", about a male hustler, into a screenplay. The day after he finished the screenplay, he was invited to a preview of "Midnight Cowboy", and after seeing the film thought "there went that idea down the drain".