Texas State’s Department of Theatre and Dance hosts 20th annual Black and Latino playwrights celebration

Texas State’s Department of Theatre and Dance, in collaboration with Humanities Texas, is hosting the 20th annual Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration (BLPC) from Aug. 29 to Sept. 4.

Celebrating its 20th year, BLPC will feature a tribute to the 2022 Distinguished Achievement honoree, August Wilson, with special guest Todd Kreidler. Additionally, BLPC will host a playwriting workshop and two staged readings of new works.

Wilson was an esteemed Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright known for a series of 10 plays called The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson, affectionally known as the theater’s poet of Black America, was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006.