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ED WILSON has produced plays on and off Broadway and served one season as the resident director of the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. He also produced a feature film, The Nashville Sound, made available recently on DVD. He is the author of two original plays, a farce, The Bettinger Prize, and a play about Ponce de Leon, Waterfall. He wrote the book and lyrics for a musical version of Great Expectations. All three have been given a series of successful readings in New York City and elsewhere. He conceived the idea of a musical revue of the songs of Jerome Kern which had a well-received try-out production in fall, 2004 at Catholic University in Washington, D. C.
Ed attended Vanderbilt, the University of Edinburgh, and Yale University where he received the first Doctor of Fine Arts degree awarded by Yale. He has taught at Vanderbilt, Yale, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Most recently he has been Executive Director of the Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author or co-author of three of the most widely used college theater textbooks in the U. S. The tenth edition of his pioneer book, The Theater Experience, will be published in 2006 by McGraw-Hill. The fifth edition of his text Theater: The Lively Art (co-authored with Alvin Goldfarb) was published by McGraw Hill in the summer of 2004. He is also the editor of Shaw on Shakespeare, recently re-issued by Applause Books.
Ed has served a number of times on the Tony Nominating Committee and the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, most recently on the Pulitzer Jury in 2003. For twenty two years he was the theater critic of the Wall Street Journal. A long time member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, he was president of the Circle for several years. He is on the board of the John Golden Fund and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. He was also for many years on the Board of the Theater Development Fund, of which he served as President.
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