Editing August Wilson (section)

=== 1970s ===
In 1976, Vernell Lillie, who had founded the [[Kuntu Repertory Theatre]] at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] two years earlier, directed Wilson's ''The Homecoming''. That same year Wilson saw [[Athol Fugard]]'s ''[[Sizwe Banzi is Dead]]'', staged at the [[Pittsburgh Public Theater]], the first time he attended professionally produced drama. Wilson, Penny, and poet Maisha Baton then founded the Kuntu Writers Workshop to bring African-American writers together and to assist them in publication and production. Both organizations remain active.

In 1978, Wilson moved to [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], at the suggestion of his friend, director [[Claude Purdy]], who helped him secure a job writing educational scripts for the [[Science Museum of Minnesota]].<ref Name="NYT"/> In 1980 he received a fellowship for [[The Playwrights' Center]] in Minneapolis. He quit the museum in 1981, but continued writing plays. For three years, he was a part-time cook for the [[Little Brothers of the Poor]]. Wilson had a long association with the [[Penumbra Theatre Company]] of St. Paul, which was initially funded by a federal [[CETA Employment of Artists (1974-1981)|Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grant]] and which premiered some of his plays. He wrote ''Fullerton Street'', which has been unproduced and unpublished, in 1980. It follows the [[Joe Louis]]/[[Billy Conn]] fight in 1941 and the loss of values attendant on the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to the urban North.<ref name= "Little 2000" />