Playwright/Director/Scholar Eric Wilson began his career at the University of Missouri, Columbia where he wrote Strands which garnered him the John F. Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival Lorraine Hansberry Award, as well as a production at the National Black Theatre Festival produced by The St. Louis Black Repertory Company. Since then, he has written such plays as A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Tragedy in Ragtime, On the Outside Corner and Solid Gold: A Doo Wop King Midas Story. He also co-authored Walking the Winds for the Kennedy Center. Wilson is currently working on his Ph.D. in Theater at the University of California, Los Angeles.
