Question: What African-American playwright influenced Kathleen Collins?

Context articles: Antoinette Nwandu
William Alexander Brown
Losing Ground (1982 film)
KC Becker
Lorraine Hansberry
Regina M. Anderson
A Rat's Mass
Fantasies (film)
Louis S. Peterson
Kathleen Collins

Antoinette Nwandu is an African-American playwright based in New York.
William Alexander Brown (also known as William Henry Brown) was an African-American playwright and theatrical producer.
 He is considered the first known Black playwright in America.
Losing Ground is a semiautobiographical 1982 film written and directed by Kathleen Collins starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, and Duane Jones.
 It is the first feature-length drama directed by a black American woman, or at least one of the first, and won First Prize at the Figueroa International Film Festival in Portugal.
Kathleen Collins "KC" Becker is an American politician from the state of Colorado.
 A member of the Democratic Party, Becker serves in the Colorado House of Representatives, representing the 13th district.
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.
Regina M. Anderson (May 21, 1901 – February 5, 1993) was an African-American playwright and librarian.
 She was of Native American, Jewish, East Indian, Swedish, and other European ancestry (including one grandparent who was a Confederate general); one of her eight grandparents was of African descent, born in Madagascar.
 Despite her own identification of her race as "American", she was perceived to be African-American by others, and became a key member of the Harlem Renaissance.
"A Rat's Mass" is a poetic, magical-realist one act written by Adrienne Kennedy, an African-American playwright whose work was made in the 20th century.
 It focuses on the negative aspects of the black experience in America by showing two African-American children longing for a white child.
 The play was, like many of Kennedy's other works, at odds with the Black Arts movement in America, focusing on dislocation and femaleness rather than the ideology of blackness.
Fantasies is a 1981 R-rated English language drama film produced in Germany.
 Directed by John Derek, the film starred his wife Kathleen Collins (really Mary Cathleen Collins; later known as Bo Derek).
 Co-stars included Peter Hooten, Anna Alexiadi, Faidon Georgitsis, Nikos Pashalidis, and Kostas Baladimas.
Louis S. Peterson (June 17, 1922 – April 27, 1998) was a playwright, actor, screenwriter, and professor.
 He was an American playwright and the first African-American playwright to have a dramatic play produced on Broadway.
 He was also one of the first African-American writers to be nominated for an Emmy Award.
Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942 – September 18, 1988) (also known as Kathleen Conwell, Kathleen Conwell Collins or Kathleen Collins Prettyman) was an African-American playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator from Jersey City, New Jersey.
 Her two feature narratives—"The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy" (1980) and "Losing Ground" (1982)—furthered the range of Black women's films.
 Although "Losing Ground" was denied large-scale exhibition, it was among the first films created by a Black woman deliberately designed to tell a story intended for popular consumption, with a feature-length narrative structure.
 Collins thus paved the way for Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" (1991) to become the first feature-length narrative film created by a Black woman to be placed in commercial distribution.
 Influenced by Lorraine Hansberry, she wrote about "African Americans as human subjects and not as mere race subjects" [emphasis in the original].