Our Founder, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had the honor and pleasure of touring the incredible August Wilson Archive at the University of Pittsburgh Library System to view curated materials from Wilson’s first play produced on Broadway, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” During our tour, we learned more about the representation of stuttering in theater through Wilson’s play as one of the characters, Ma Rainey’s nephew Sylvester, is depicted with a stutter. A great American playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), August Wilson was described as having a stutter in his childhood.
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