CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Playwright Continues Series About 19th-Century African-American Life

90.5 WESA: Mark Clayton Southers owes much of the inspiration for his theater career to an unimpeachable source: August Wilson. It was listening to the Pittsburgh-born Pulitzer Prize winner lecture in South Africa in 1998 that led Southers – then a thirtysomething steel-mill worker and stage actor – to try his hand at writing.

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