New Dramatists, the nation's oldest nonprofit, drama development workshop, presented August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, its 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award during a $200-ticket affair at the New York Marriott Marquis in May - Milestones

Black Issues Book Review, July-August, 2003 by Judy Dothard Simmons

New Dramatists, the nation's oldest nonprofit, drama development workshop, presented August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, its 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award during a $200-ticket affair at the New York Marriott Marquis in May. More than 100 of Wilson's peers turned up for the tribute, as well as actors who created key roles in Wilson plays, including Charles S. Dutton and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Whoopi Goldberg, who produced and acted in the recent revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, presented Wilson with his award.

Judy Dothard Simmons

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