August Wilson for a new generation
“August Wilson was a unique, powerful and influential force in American Theatre. Through the gift of his storytelling he taught all of us much about who we are and where we come from and how we can all survive and grow as human beings.”
-Gordon Davidson, Founding Artistic Director, Center Theatre Group
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Click here to follow the August Wilson Monologue Competition journey this year. You'll find more fun photos and information! |
Experience August Wilson's work in the Mark Taper Forum
now through June 9!
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It’s August 1911 as the Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha Holly’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial North in search of work, a new life, somewhere to belong.
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Performing August Wilson
Center Theatre Group is proud to be the Southern California home for the National August Wilson Monologue Competition in which high school students prepare and compete to bring Wilson’s memorable characters to life. Click here to learn more.
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Discovering August Wilson
The August Wilson In-School Residency Program provides an in-depth study of this significant playwright for ninth-grade English students. Learn more here.
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August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel on April 27, 1945, to mother Daisy Wilson, a cleaning lady who primarily cared for August and his siblings, and his father, also Frederick August Kittel, a German immigrant and baker... Read more here.
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Click here to learn more about August Wilson's ten Century Cycle plays. |
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Click here to learn about Wilson's artistic influences, what he calls the 4 B's. |
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Take some time to think creatively about your own community here.
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Click here to see the complete 2013 August Wilson Monologue Competition compendium of monologues.
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Questions?
Contact Traci Cho, Director of School Partnerships, at 213.972.7720 or tcho@CenterTheatreGroup.org.
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Photo Credit
Top: August Wilson. Photo by David Cooper
Bottom: Eliana Pipes, Rhyver White and Pablo Lopez celebrate at the Los Angeles Regional Finals of the August Wilson Monologue Competition as they are named the three national finalists who will head to New York. Photo by Center Theatre Group