Across the table at breakfast, the first woman to helm a Wilson production on Broadway asked Moreland a simple, but important question. Moreland would soon after find himself in conversation with actor-producer Denzel Washington, who has taken to shepherding the late writer’s work on the screen, and later LaTanya Richardson Jackson, the revival’s director. “What she was really wanting and needed to happen and missing was the August Wilson for now, that would move people toward the words and the work and it to this new generation of people,” he recalls. It’s a journey he says started with an invite by the Wilson estate and a weekend in Pittsburgh with the playwright’s widow Constanza Romero Wilson.

Moreland proudly counts himself among that community of Black creatives selected to impart Wilson’s version of the history and, in some ways, the present of Black Americans. Black Women on Broadway Awards Set Return Date 'Some Like It Hot,' 'Six the Musical' Stars Among Honorees (Exclusive)

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