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Tracey Scott Wilson is an American playwright and TV writer whose works have been produced nationally and internationally. She graduated from Rutgers University in 1989 with a BA in English and from Temple University with an MA in English Literature in 1993.〔(Rutgers Alumni Website. )〕 ==Career== Wilson began writing fiction after graduating from Temple University. Finding herself unable to finish a novel, she decided to take a playwriting class. "I didn't see much theater as a kid, so I had no expectations....It just took me over."〔McKinley, Jesse, ("Finding Her Own Way to Get the Story Right" ), ''The New York Times'', December 7, 2003.〕 Wilson soon realized that she had found her métier and wrote a number of short plays. At the encouragement of her mentor, playwright Chiori Miyagawa, Wilson applied for and won a New York Theatre Workshop fellowship in 1998.〔Als, Hilton, ("Blackout: Tracey Scott Wilson on Race, Ambition and Journalistic Ethics" ), ''The New Yorker'', December 22, 2003.〕 Wilson’s work has received readings at New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, The Public Theater, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Soho Theatre Writers' Centre in London. Awards and residencies include two Van Lier fellowships from the New York Theatre Workshop, a residency at the Sundance Institute Playwright’s Retreat at Ucross and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, the 2001 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the 2003 AT&T Onstage Award, a 2004 Whiting Award, the 2004 Kesselring Prize, the 2007 L. Arnold Weissberger Award and the 2007 Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship. In 2009, she was the writer-in-residence at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. On February 29, 2014, the Joyce Foundation announced that Wilson was one of the recipients of its 2014 Joyce Awards.〔(Joyce Foundation 2014 Announcement ), February 29, 2014.〕 With her prize, Wilson will work intimately with a community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and write a new play, ''Prep''. ''Prep'' will debut at the Pillsbury House Theater during the theater's 2015 season. Wilson's productions include ''Order My Steps'' for Cornerstone Theater Company’s Black Faith/AIDS project in Los Angeles; ''Exhibit #9'', which was produced in New York City by New Perspectives Theatre Company and Theatre Outrageous; ''Leader of the People'', produced at New Georges; ''Buzzer'' at Pillsbury House Theatre; two 10-minute plays produced at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and a 10-minute play produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Wilson's first major Manhattan production was in 2003 with ''The Story'' at the Public Theater. ''The Good Negro'' was produced at The Public and then at the Goodman Theater in 2010. Wilson's ''Buzzer'' was produced as part of the Goodman's 2013-14 season and was added to the Public Theater's 2014-2015 season in October 2014.〔(Goodman Theater, 2013-2014 Season. )〕〔(Broadway.com )〕 ''The Story'' and ''The Good Negro'' have been published by Dramatists Play Service. She has taught and guest lectured at Brown University, Yale University, Rutgers University and New York University. Wilson is also a TV writer.〔Neal, Justin, ("'Buzzer' Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson Tries Her Hand at TV Drama" ), ''Star Tribune'', February 11, 2013.〕 Her episode of NBC's ''Do No Harm'' aired on August 18, 2013 and she is currently staffed on F/X's ''The Americans''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tracey Scott Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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