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Edwin Wilson

Edwin Wilson was the theatre critic of The Wall Street Journal for twenty-two years. In addition to The Theater Experience, he is coauthor with Alvin Goldfarb of Living Theater: A History and Theater: The Lively Art, published by McGraw-Hill, and he is responsible for the volume Shaw on Shakespeare. He has served as president of the New York Drama Critics Circle and was four times on the Tony Nominating Committee, most recently in the 1996-1997 season. He is on the boards of the John Golden Fund, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Theatre Development Fund, of which he was also president.

Teacher, author, and critic, Edwin Wilson has worked in many aspects of the theatre. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale Drama School, as well as the first Doctor of Fine Arts Degree awarded be Yale. He has taught at Yale, Hofstra, Vanderbilt, Hunter College, and the CUNY Graduate Center. At Hunter he served as chair of the Department of Theatre and Film and the head of the graduate theatre program