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==Work== {| class="wikitable" |- ! First Produced !First Performance!! Title !! Notes |- |1976 |[[Penumbra Theatre Company|Penumbra Theater]]|| ''Recycle'' ||Written in 1965-1973;<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays On The Drama of August Wilson |publisher=University of Iowa Press |year=1994 |isbn=0-87745-428-0 |editor-last=Nadel |editor-first=Alan}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite book |last=Hartigan |first=Patti |url= |title=August Wilson: A Life |date=2023 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=9781501180668 |location=New York |oclc=1347429411}}</ref> Originally named "Recycling"; Directed and Acted by August Wilson.<ref name=":4" /> |- |1976 ''(not published)'' |[[Kuntu Repertory Theatre|Kuntu Repertory Theater]]|| ''The Homecoming'' ||Performed in [[Schenley High School]]; Directed by Vernell Lillie; Produced again in 1989. |- |1976 |Ujima Theater<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Glasco |first=Larry |date=Spring 2019 |title=Chapter IX: "I Can't Take It!": August Wilson Leaves Pittsburgh |url=https://augustwilson.pitt.edu/ojs/augustwilson/article/view/26/26 |journal=August Wilson Journal |volume=1|doi=10.5195/awj.2019.26 |doi-access=free }}</ref>|| ''The Coldest Day of the Year'' ||Written in 1976; part of "The Wood of the Cross" trilogy.<ref name=":4" /> |- |''(not published)'' |''(not performed)'' |''Placebo'' |Written in 1978; part of "The Wood of the Cross" trilogy.<ref name=":4" /> |- |''(not produced)'' |''(not performed)'' |''"Profiles in Science" Series'' |One Man and One Woman plays written while Wilson was working at the [[Science Museum of Minnesota]]. Plays include ''"An Evening with Margaret Mead"'', as well as ''"Profiles in Science: William Harvey"'' and a play about Charles Darwin.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shannon |first=Sandra |date=Winter 1993 |title=Blues, History, and Dramaturgy: An Interview with August Wilson |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3041887 |journal=African American Review |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=539–559 |doi=10.2307/3041887 |jstor=3041887 |via=Indiana State University}}</ref> |- |''(not produced)'' |''(not performed)''|| ''Fullerton Street'' ||Written in 1980; Originally intended to be Wilson's play about the 1940's.<ref name=":3" /> |- |1981 |[[Penumbra Theatre Company|Penumbra Theater]]|| ''Black Bart and the Sacred Hills'' ||Written in 1977; Originally accepted at the [[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center|O’Neill Theater Center]] in Connecticut.<ref name=":4" /> |- |1982 |Allegheny Repertory Theater<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-03-24 |title=August Wilson: A Timeline |url=https://olneypianolesson.wordpress.com/the-play/august-wilson-a-timeline/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=The Piano Lesson |language=en}}</ref>|| ''[[Jitney (play)|Jitney!]]'' ||Written in 1979; Performed October 29, 1982.<ref name=":4" /> |- |1982 |[[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center|O'Neill Theater]]|| ''[[Ma Rainey's Black Bottom]]'' ||The 1982 production was a reading Wilson did for [[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center|O'Neill Theater]] Writers to introduce them to some of his work beyond ''Black Bart and the Sacred Hills''; the 1984 production was the play's first open performance at [[Yale Repertory Theatre|Yale Repertory Theater]]. |- |1985 | || ''The Janitor'' ||Part of "The Wood of the Cross" trilogy.<ref name=":4" /> Published in ''Short Pieces from the New Dramatists'', edited by Stan Chervin, pp. 81-82. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1985.<ref name=":3" /> |- |1985 |[[Yale Repertory Theater]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cummings |first=Mike |date=2017-02-22 |title=Oscar-nominated 'Fences' has Yale roots |url=https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/22/oscar-nominated-fences-has-yale-roots |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=YaleNews |language=en}}</ref>|| ''[[Fences (play)|Fences]]'' ||Written in 1983; Produced in 1985 |- |1986 |[[Yale Repertory Theatre]]|| ''[[Joe Turner's Come and Gone]]''||Written and Published in 1984.<ref name=":3" /> First Performed in 1986 at Yale Repertory Theater. |- |1987 |[[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center|O'Neill Theater]]|| ''[[The Piano Lesson]]'' ||Written in 1986; Presented as a staged reading in 1987 at the O'Neill Theater's National Playwrights' Conference.<ref name=":3" /> |- |1990 |[[Yale Repertory Theatre]]|| ''[[Two Trains Running]]'' || |- |1995 |[[Goodman Theatre|Goodman Theater]]|| ''[[Seven Guitars]]'' ||First Draft Finished in 1993. |- |1996 |[[Princeton University]]|| ''The Ground on Which I Stand'' [speech] ||Given at the 11th biennial Theatre Communications Group national conference at New Jersey’s Princeton University.<ref name=":2" /> |- |1999 |[[O'Reilly Theater]]|| ''[[King Hedley II]]'' || |- |2002 |[[Seattle Repertory Theatre|Seattle Repertory Theater]]|| ''How I Learned What I Learned'' || |- |2003 |[[Goodman Theatre|Goodman Theater]]|| ''[[Gem of the Ocean]]'' || |- |2005 |[[Yale Repertory Theatre]]|| ''[[Radio Golf]]'' || |- |}
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