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  1. George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and another Tony Award in 1996 for his direction of the musical Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk. He served as Artistic Director of The Public Theater ...

  2. George C. Wolfe is a Broadway producer, director, and writer who has won Tony Awards and worked with Joseph Papp. He has also directed films such as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Garden State.

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  3. Nov 5, 2023 · November 5, 2023. Photograph by Dawit N.M. for The New Yorker. “If that shit don’t work, I don’t wear it,” the director and writer George C. Wolfe told me when we spoke last month. He was ...

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  4. Nov 9, 2016 · George C. Wolfe was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 9, 2016. Playwright and artistic director George C. Wolfe was born on September 23, 1954 in Frankfort, Kentucky. His mother, a teacher, was among the first African Americans to study library science through the University of Kentucky Extension Program.

  5. May 14, 2018 · George C. Wolfe 1954 –. Playwright, stage director, producer. Found Love of Theater Early. Made a Name as Playwright and Director. On the “ A-List ”. Selected works. Sources. In the spring of 1993 George C. Wolfe was named the new head of the New York Shakespeare Festival, one of Manhattan ’ s most influential theater projects.

  6. Sep 8, 2023 · Sept. 8, 2023. George C. Wolfe can pinpoint the exact moment that sparked his career as a director and dramatist. When he was a fourth grader, his all-Black elementary school in Kentucky was ...

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  8. Jun 1, 2023 · By Julia Jacobs. June 1, 2023. When the playwright and director George C. Wolfe moved to New York City in his 20s, he got a job at an archive for Black cultural history, where his work saving ...