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Doric Wilson (February 24, 1939 – May 7, 2011) was an American playwright, director, producer, critic and gay rights activist.

He was born Alan Doric Wilson in Los Angeles, California, where his family was temporarily located. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he was raised on his grandfather's ranch at Plymouth, Washington on the Columbia River. He wrote his first play at Kennewick High School, but was accused of plagiarism when a teacher informed him that no student of hers would ever be able to write such a play.^[1]

Training

Wilson received his early theater training under Lorraine Larson, apprenticed with Dorothy Seeburger and the Richland Players, and studied briefly at the Drama Department of the University of Washington until he was forced to leave after he initiated a one-person protest against anti-gay sniper attacks at a nearby park. ^{[citation needed]}

New York career

Wilson moved to NYC in 1959 where he had a brief acting career playing such roles as Valère to the Mariane of Dawn Wells (later Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) in Molière's Tartuffe and Older Patrick to Nancy Wilder's Auntie Mame in various stock productions. In 1961, he became one of the first resident playwrights at NYC's legendary Caffe Cino, his comedy, And He Made a Her, opened there with Jane Lowry and Larry Neil Clayton leading the cast and Paxton Whitehead directing.

The success of his four plays at Caffe Cino helped, in the words of playwright Robert Patrick, "establish the Cino as a venue for new plays, and materially contributed to the then-emerging concept of Off-Off-Broadway." His Now She Dances! (1961), a fantasia on the trial of Oscar Wilde, was the first Off-Off-Broadway play to deal positively with gay people. Now She Dances! is the subject of season one (2021) of the LGBTQ theatre history podcast, Out Lines.^[2]

Under the mentorship of producer Richard Barr, Wilson became a pioneer of the alternative theatre movement, dedicating his career to writing, directing, producing and/or designing hundreds productions. He was one of the first playwrights invited to join the Barr/Wilder/Albee Playwright's Unit and later became a founding member of Circle Repertory Company. ^{[citation needed]}

Gay activism

A veteran of the anti-war and civil rights demonstrations of the early 1960s-mid 1970s, Wilson was a participant in the Stonewall Riots (1969) and became active in the early days of the New York Gay Liberation movement as a member of GAA (Gay Activist Alliance). He supported his theatrical endeavors by becoming a "star" bartender and manager of the post-Stonewall gay bar scene, opening such landmark institutions as The Spike, TY's and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret. In 2004, Wilson was named a Grand Marshal of the 35th Anniversary Pride Day Parade in New York City. He is featured in the documentary Stonewall Uprising (2010) by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner.^[3]

Gay theater

In 1974, Wilson (with Billy Blackwell, Peter del Valle and John McSpadden)^[who?] formed TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), the first professional theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience. The company featured new plays and revivals by such writers as Brendan Behan, Noël Coward, Christopher Hampton, Joe Orton, Terrence McNally, Robert Patrick, Sandra Scoppettone, Martin Sherman and Lanford Wilson.^[4] Theatre scholar Jordan Schildcrout writes that TOSOS "combined the non-commercial and experimental ethos of the Caffe Cino with the politics and community activism of the gay liberation movement."^[5]

In June 2001, Wilson, and directors Mark Finley^[6] and Barry Childs resurrected the company as TOSOS II. TOSOS produces two full-length plays each season, in addition to the Chesley/Chambers Play-Reading Series, named after playwrights Robert Chesley and Jane Chambers, both friends of Wilson's.^[7] Recent productions include a revival of Wilson's Street Theater, as well as Waiting for Giovanni by Jewelle Gomez, Secret Identity by Chris Weikel, and Bar Dykes by Merril Mushroom.^[8]

Death

Wilson died on May 7, 2011, aged 72, from natural causes at his home in Manhattan.^[9]

Reviewer

Over the years Wilson reviewed theater for Other Stages, The Villager in NYC and various publications in Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Selected reviews are posted on the Purple Circuit.

Principal plays

And He Made a Her (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)
Babel Babel Little Tower (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)
Now She Dances! (One act version: Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961; full-length version: Flexible Deadlock, Glasgow, Scotland, 2000)
Pretty People (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)
Some People Are (opera libretto for Walter Torgerson, 1966)
In Absence (45th Street Playhouse, NYC, 1968)
The West Street Gang (TOSOS, Spike Bar, NYC, 1977)
A Perfect Relationship (The Glines, NYC, 1978)
Turnabout (under pseudonym Howard Aldon) ^{[citation needed]} (Richland Players, Washington, 1980)
Forever After (The First Gay American Arts Festival, NYC, 1980)
Street Theatre (Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco, 1982; Meridian Theater, The Mineshaft, NYC, 1983)^[10]

Publishing

United Stages has published Now She Dances!; Street Theatre; and And He Made a Her (which includes a CD of the original 1961 Caffe Cino performance). Earlier versions of Street Theater and A Perfect Relationship are published by TNT Press; Street Theater is also included in the Don Shewey edited anthology Out Front (Grove Press).

Awards and honors

2010 Honorary Golden Pineapple Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented by NY Artists Unlimited.
2010 PassionFruit Award for Enduring and Continuing Pioneer Work in LGBT Theater, Fresh Fruit Festival
2009 Elected a member of the National Theater Conference:
2009 ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Career Achievement Award
2007 Mark Finley presented Wilson with the Artistic Achievement Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. This honor was bestowed on Wilson on behalf of his peers and fellow artists of the Off-Off-Broadway community "in recognition of his visionary artistic contributions and unwavering dedication and character that helped shape the Off-Off-Broadway community."^[11]^[12]
1994 - The first Robert Chesley Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay and Lesbian Playwrighting.
Numerous "best play" honors, including: 1982: The Villager and the Chambers-Blackwell Best Play citations for Street Theater; 2002-3: oobr Award for A Perfect Relationship; 2007: nomination of the 2007 Lambda Award for the revival of And He Made a Her.

The Doric Wilson Awards

There are two theater awards named for Doric Wilson.

The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival has presented the Doric Wilson Award for International Cultural Dialogue Through Theater every year since 2011. The award is presented each year at the Festival Gala to an artist or company whose work has created new or innovative dialogue about LGBTQ issues.

The New York Independent Theater Awards have presented the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award since 2012. The award is given to a playwright whose writing "honors the innovation, uncompromising vision, heart, and spirit that was Doric Wilson and his work."^[13]

References

Footnotes

^ Doric Wilson, Playwright and Mainstay of Gay Theater, Dies at 72 by Dennis Hevesi, New York Times, May 15, 2011
^ "Out Lines Podcast". June 1, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02.
^ "American Experience: Stonewall Uprising: Interview with Doric Wilson". Open Vault from GBH. Archived from the original on 2019-01-28. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ ""A Brief History of TOSOS"". 5 September 2014. Archived from the original on 2019-08-07. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
^ Schildcrout, Jordan (March 2018). "Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson's Street Theater". Modern Drama. 61 (1): 82–105. doi:10.3138/md.0866. ISSN 0026-7694. S2CID 191757768.
^ Mentors & Inspirations by Doric Wilson, February 14, 2010.
^ "TOSOS: History". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ "TOSOS: Past Productions". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
^ Doric Wilson obituary, nytimes.com, May 16, 2011.
^ "Street Theatre". Stageplays.com. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
^ Spotlight On: Doric Wilson by Shay Gines
^ Meet the 2007 Honorary Award Recipients
^ "The League of Independent Theater - Honorary Awards". League of Independent Theater. Retrieved 11 September 2023.

General citations

Bottoms, Stephen J. Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement. 2004. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
Clum, John M. Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. New York City, Columbia University Press, 1994.
Crespy, David A. Off-Off-Broadway Explosion: How Provocative Playwrights of the 1960s Ignited a New American Theater. New York: Back Stage Books, 2003.
Loughery, John. The Other Side of Silence. New York City, Henry Holt and Company, 1998
Schildcrout, Jordan. "Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson's Street Theater," Modern Drama 61:1, 82-105, Spring 2018.
Stone, Wendell C. Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Solomon, Alisa & Minwalla, Framji. The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater. New York City, New York: New University Press, 2002.
Susoyev, Steve & Birimisa, George. Return to the Caffe Cino. San Francisco, California: Moving Finger Press, 2006.
Trodd, Zoe. American Protest Literature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

External links

Doric Wilson at IMDb
Doric Wilson at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Doric Wilson website (includes free download of his major plays), doricwilson.com
TOSOS theater company website, tosos2.org
Caffe Cino Picture Pages (includes many images of Wilson and his work), caffecino.wordpress.com
2 Part Interview with William M. Hoffman (pg. 14), robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com

[1] Doric Wilson, Playwright and Mainstay of Gay Theater, Dies at 72 by Dennis Hevesi, New York Times, May 15, 2011

[2] "Out Lines Podcast". June 1, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-06-02.

[3] "American Experience: Stonewall Uprising: Interview with Doric Wilson". Open Vault from GBH. Archived from the original on 2019-01-28. Retrieved May 1, 2021.

[4] ""A Brief History of TOSOS"". 5 September 2014. Archived from the original on 2019-08-07. Retrieved June 1, 2021.

[5] Schildcrout, Jordan (March 2018). "Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson's Street Theater". Modern Drama. 61 (1): 82–105. doi:10.3138/md.0866. ISSN 0026-7694. S2CID 191757768.

[6] Mentors & Inspirations by Doric Wilson, February 14, 2010.

[7] "TOSOS: History". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved May 1, 2021.

[8] "TOSOS: Past Productions". Archived from the original on 2021-06-02. Retrieved May 1, 2021.

[9] Doric Wilson obituary, nytimes.com, May 16, 2011.

[10] "Street Theatre". Stageplays.com. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2019.

[11] Spotlight On: Doric Wilson by Shay Gines

[12] Meet the 2007 Honorary Award Recipients

[13] "The League of Independent Theater - Honorary Awards". League of Independent Theater. Retrieved 11 September 2023.

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+'''Doric Wilson''' (February 24, 1939{{spaced ndash}}May 7, 2011) was an American playwright, director, producer, critic and gay rights activist.
-'''Doric Wilson''' (February 24, 1939-May 7th, 2011) playwright, director, producer, critic and gay political activist, was born Alan Doric Wilson  in Los Angeles (CA) where his family were temporarily located.  Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Wilson was raised on his grandfather's ranch at Plymouth on the Columbia River of Washington State. He wrote his first play for his English Lit class at [[Kennewick]] High School, but was accused of plagiarism when his teacher Miss Shrives informed him that no student of hers would ever be able to write a play.
+He was born '''Alan Doric Wilson''' in [[Los Angeles, California]], where his family was temporarily located. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he was raised on his grandfather's ranch at [[Plymouth, Washington]] on the Columbia River. He wrote his first play at [[Kennewick]] High School, but was accused of plagiarism when a teacher informed him that no student of hers would ever be able to write such a play.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/arts/doric-wilson-72-playwright-in-gay-theater-dies.html Doric Wilson, Playwright and Mainstay of Gay Theater, Dies at 72] by Dennis Hevesi, New York Times, May 15, 2011</ref>
-== Training ==
+==Training==
+Wilson received his early theater training under Lorraine Larson, apprenticed with Dorothy Seeburger and the Richland Players, and studied briefly at the Drama Department of the [[University of Washington]] until he was forced to leave after he initiated a one-person protest against anti-gay sniper attacks at a nearby park.  {{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}
+==New York career==
-Doric Wilson received his early theater training under Lorraine Larson, apprenticed with Dorothy Seeburger and the Richland Players (WA), and studied briefly at the Drama Department of the [[University of Washington]] until he was forced to leave after he initiated a one person protest against anti-gay sniper attacks at a nearby park.
+Wilson moved to NYC in 1959 where he had a brief acting career playing such roles as Valère to the Mariane of [[Dawn Wells]] (later Mary Ann on ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'') in [[Molière]]'s ''[[Tartuffe]]'' and Older Patrick to Nancy Wilder's [[Auntie Mame]] in various stock productions. In 1961, he became one of the first resident playwrights at NYC's legendary [[Caffe Cino]], his comedy, ''And He Made a Her'', opened there with Jane Lowry and Larry Neil Clayton leading the cast and [[Paxton Whitehead]] directing.
+The success of his four plays at Caffe Cino helped, in the words of playwright [[Robert Patrick (playwright)|Robert Patrick]], "establish the Cino as a venue for new plays, and materially contributed to the then-emerging concept of [[Off-Off-Broadway]]."  His ''Now She Dances!'' (1961), a fantasia on the trial of [[Oscar Wilde]], was the first Off-Off-Broadway play to deal positively with gay people. ''Now She Dances!'' is the subject of season one (2021) of the LGBTQ theatre history podcast, ''Out Lines''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 1, 2021|title=Out Lines Podcast|url=https://outlines.libsyn.com/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214340/https://outlines.libsyn.com/ |archive-date=2021-06-02 }}</ref>
-== New York career==
-Wilson moved to NYC in 1959 where he had a brief acting career playing such roles as Valère to the Mariane of [[Dawn Wells]] (Mary Ann on ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'') in [[Molière]]'s ''[[Tartuffe]]'' and Older Patrick to Nancy Wilder's Auntie Mame in various stock productions.  In 1961 he became one of the first resident playwrights at NYC's legendary [[Caffe Cino]], his comedy ''And He Made A Her'', opened there with Jane Lowry and Larry Neil Clayton leading the cast and [[Paxton Whitehead]] directing.  The success of his four Cino Plays helped, in the words of playwright [[Robert Patrick (playwright)|Robert Patrick]], " establish the Cino as a venue for new plays, and materially contributed to the then-emerging concept of [[Off-Off-Broadway]]."  His ''Now She Dances!'', a fantasia on the trial of [[Oscar Wilde]], was the first off-off-Broadway play to deal positively with gay people (1961). Under the mentorship of producer Richard Barr he became a pioneer of the alternative theatre movement, dedicating his career to writing, directing, producing and/or designing hundreds productions.  He was one of the first playwrights invited to join the Barr/Wilder/Albee Playwright's Unit and later became a founding member of [[Circle Repertory Company]].
+Under the mentorship of producer Richard Barr, Wilson became a pioneer of the alternative theatre movement, dedicating his career to writing, directing, producing and/or designing hundreds productions. He was one of the first playwrights invited to join the Barr/Wilder/Albee Playwright's Unit and later became a founding member of [[Circle Repertory Company]]. {{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}
-== Gay activism ==
+==Gay activism==
+A veteran of the anti-war and civil rights demonstrations of the early 1960s-mid 1970s, Wilson was a participant in the [[Stonewall Riots]] (1969) and became active in the early days of the New York Gay Liberation movement as a member of GAA (Gay Activist Alliance). He supported his theatrical endeavors by becoming a "star" bartender and manager of the post-Stonewall gay bar scene, opening such landmark institutions as The Spike, TY's and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret. In 2004, Wilson was named a Grand Marshal of the 35th Anniversary Pride Day Parade in New York City. He is featured in the documentary ''Stonewall Uprising'' (2010) by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner.<ref>{{Cite web|title=American Experience: Stonewall Uprising: Interview with Doric Wilson|url=https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0CC990EC6B274E00B53F6C1D17665FAC|url-status=live|access-date=May 1, 2021|website=Open Vault from GBH|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128225701/http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0CC990EC6B274E00B53F6C1D17665FAC |archive-date=2019-01-28 }}</ref>
+==Gay theater==
-A veteran of the anti-war and civil rights demonstrations of the early 1960s-mid 1970s, Doric Wilson was a participant in the [[Stonewall Riots]] (1969) and became active in the early days of the New York Gay Liberation movement as a member of GAA (Gay Activist Alliance).  He supported his theatrical endeavors by becoming a "star" bartender and manager of the post-Stonewall gay bar scene, opening such landmark institutions as The Spike, TY's and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret.  In 2004 Doric Wilson was honored to be one of the Grand Marshals of the 35th Anniversary Pride Day Parade in New York City.
+In 1974, Wilson (with Billy Blackwell, Peter del Valle and John McSpadden){{who|date=February 2017}} formed TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), the first professional theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience. The company featured new plays and revivals by such writers as [[Brendan Behan]], [[Noël Coward]], [[Christopher Hampton]], [[Joe Orton]], [[Terrence McNally]], [[Robert Patrick (playwright)|Robert Patrick]], [[Sandra Scoppettone]], [[Martin Sherman]] and [[Lanford Wilson]].<ref>{{Cite web|title="A Brief History of TOSOS"|date=5 September 2014 |url=http://www.goodstuff1901.com/wp_tosos/history-2/|url-status=live|access-date=June 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807103330/http://www.goodstuff1901.com/wp_tosos/history-2/ |archive-date=2019-08-07 }}</ref> Theatre scholar Jordan Schildcrout writes that TOSOS "combined the non-commercial and experimental ethos of the Caffe Cino with the politics and community activism of the gay liberation movement."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schildcrout|first=Jordan|date=March 2018|title=Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson's Street Theater|journal=Modern Drama|volume=61|issue=1|pages=82–105|doi=10.3138/md.0866|s2cid=191757768|issn=0026-7694}}</ref>
-He is featured in the documentary film, "Stonewall Uprising" (2010), produced and directed by award winning film makers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner.
+In June 2001, Wilson, and directors Mark Finley<ref>[http://www.nyitawards.com/news/2010/2/14/DoricInspirations Mentors & Inspirations] by Doric Wilson, February 14, 2010.</ref> and Barry Childs resurrected the company as TOSOS II. TOSOS produces two full-length plays each season, in addition to the Chesley/Chambers Play-Reading Series, named after playwrights [[Robert Chesley]] and [[Jane Chambers]], both friends of Wilson's.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TOSOS: History|url=https://www.tososnyc.org/history|url-status=live|access-date=May 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214701/https://www.tososnyc.org/history |archive-date=2021-06-02 }}</ref> Recent productions include a revival of Wilson's ''Street Theater'', as well as ''Waiting for Giovanni'' by [[Jewelle Gomez]], ''Secret Identity'' by Chris Weikel, and ''Bar Dykes'' by Merril Mushroom.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TOSOS: Past Productions|url=https://www.tososnyc.org/past-productions|url-status=live|access-date=May 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214341/https://www.tososnyc.org/past-productions |archive-date=2021-06-02 }}</ref>
-== Gay theater ==
+==Death==
-In 1974, Doric Wilson (with Billy Blackwell, Peter del Valle and John McSpadden) formed TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), the first professional theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience. The company featured new plays and revivals by such writers as [[Brendan Behan]], [[Noël Coward]], [[Christopher Hampton]], Charles Jurrist, [[Joe Orton]], Terrence McNally, [[Robert Patrick (playwright)|Robert Patrick]], Sandra Scoppettone, [[Martin Sherman]] and [[Lanford Wilson]].  In June, 2001, Wilson, and directors Mark Finley and Barry Childs resurrected the company as TOSOS II ([http://www.tosos2.org]).  The return of TOSOS has been met with critical acclaim and awards and has achieved a well-earned reputation for the talent and professionalism of its company. The original TOSOS and its production of Doric Wilson's play ''The West Street Gang'' are featured in "Perform," the new permanent exhibit on theatre at The Museum of New York City.
+Wilson died on May 7, 2011, aged 72, from natural causes at his home in [[Manhattan]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/arts/doric-wilson-72-playwright-in-gay-theater-dies.html Doric Wilson obituary], nytimes.com, May 16, 2011.</ref>
+==Reviewer==
-Doric Wilson's plays from the late 1970s: ''The West Street Gang'' (1977); ''A Perfect Relationship'' (1978); ''Forever After'' (1980); and ''Street Theater'' (1982) quickly became staples of the emerging Gay Theater circuit, widely performed here and abroad.  He is currently working on two new plays, ''The Boy Next Door'' and ''Saints on a Secret Mission''.  Critic Tish Dace describes him as "a quintessentially urban dramatist... Doric Wilson specializes in stylish farce, ironic comedy of wit, and urbane satire... his combination of fantasy and whimsy and his intellectual dialectic suggests the touch of a [[Giraudoux]] or a [[George Bernard Shaw|Shaw]]... yet underlying his often caustic comedy is surprisingly romantic sensibility."
+Over the years Wilson reviewed theater for ''Other Stages'', ''The Villager'' in NYC and various publications in Los Angeles, Seattle and [[Portland, Oregon]]. Selected reviews are posted on the Purple Circuit.
-== Criticism ==
+==Principal plays==
+* ''And He Made a Her'' (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)
+* ''Babel Babel Little Tower'' (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)
+* ''Now She Dances!'' (One act version: Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961; full-length version: Flexible Deadlock, [[Glasgow, Scotland]], 2000)
+* ''Pretty People'' (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)
+* ''Some People Are'' (opera libretto for Walter Torgerson, 1966)
+* ''In Absence'' (45th Street Playhouse, NYC, 1968)
+* ''The West Street Gang'' (TOSOS, Spike Bar, NYC, 1977)
+* ''A Perfect Relationship'' (The Glines, NYC, 1978)
+* ''Turnabout'' (under pseudonym '''Howard Aldon''') {{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} (Richland Players, Washington, 1980)
+* ''Forever After'' (The First Gay American Arts Festival, NYC, 1980)
+* ''Street Theatre'' (Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco, 1982; Meridian Theater, The Mineshaft, NYC, 1983)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stageplays.com/products/street_theatre/Doric%20Wilson|title=Street Theatre|accessdate=March 17, 2019|publisher=Stageplays.com|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807123339/https://www.stageplays.com/products/street_theatre/Doric%20Wilson|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+==Publishing==
-Over the years Wilson has reviewed theater for ''Other Stages'', ''The Villager'' in NYC and various publications in Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland (OR).  Selected reviews are posted on the Purple Circuit ( [http://www.buddybuddy.com/pc-feat.html] )
+United Stages has published ''Now She Dances!''; ''Street Theatre''; and ''And He Made a Her'' (which includes a CD of the original 1961 Caffe Cino performance). Earlier versions of ''Street Theater'' and ''A Perfect Relationship'' are published by TNT Press; ''Street Theater'' is also included in the Don Shewey edited anthology ''Out Front'' (Grove Press).
-== Principal plays ==
-''And He Made A Her'' (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)<br />
-''Babel Babel Little Tower'' (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)<br />
-''Now She Dances!'' (One act version: Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961/Full length version: Flexible Deadlock, Glasgow, Scotland, 2000).<br />
-''Pretty People'' (Caffe Cino, NYC, 1961)<br />
-''Some People Are'' (opera libretto for Walter Torgerson, 1966)<br />
-''In Absence'' (45th Street Playhouse, NYC, 1968)<br />
-''Turnabout'' (under pseudonym Howard Aldon) (Richland Players, WA, 1980)<br />
-''The West Street Gang'' (TOSOS, Spike Bar, NYC, 1977)<br />
-''A Perfect Relationship'' (The Glines, NYC, 1978)<br />
-''Forever After'' (The First Gay American Arts Festival, NYC, 1980)<br />
-''Street Theater'' (Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco, 1982/Meridian Theater, The Mineshaft, NYC, 1983)<br />
-''The Boy Next Door'' (concept in work, NYC, 2008?...)
-== Publishing ==
-United Stages ([http://www.unitedstages.com]) has published ''Now She Dances!''; ''Street Theater''; and ''And He Made a Her'' (which includes a CD of the original 1961 Caffe Cino performance). Earlier versions of ''Street Theater'' and ''A Perfect Relationship'' are published by TNT Press (Box 1243 Ansonia Station, New York, NY 10023); ''Street Theater'' is also included in the Don Shewey edited anthology ''Out Front'' (Grove Press).
 ==Awards and honors==
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 *2009 Elected a member of the National Theater Conference:
 *2009 ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) Career Achievement Award
-*2007 Mark Finley presented Wilson with the Artistic Achievement Award from the [[New York Innovative Theatre Awards]]. This honor was bestowed on Wilson on behalf of his peers and fellow artists of the Off-Off-Broadway community "in recognition of his significant artistic contributions to the Off-Off-Broadway community and beyond." <ref>[http://www.nyitawards.com/news/2011/3/21/DoricWilson50YrCelebration Spotlight On: Doric Wilson] by Shay Gines</ref> <ref>[http://www.nyitawards.com/news/2007/9/16/2007HonoraryAwardRecips Meet the 2007 Honorary Award Recipients]</ref>
+*2007 Mark Finley presented Wilson with the Artistic Achievement Award from the [[New York Innovative Theatre Awards]]. This honor was bestowed on Wilson on behalf of his peers and fellow artists of the Off-Off-Broadway community "in recognition of his visionary artistic contributions and unwavering dedication and character that helped shape the Off-Off-Broadway community."<ref>[http://www.nyitawards.com/news/2011/3/21/DoricWilson50YrCelebration Spotlight On: Doric Wilson] by Shay Gines</ref><ref>[http://www.nyitawards.com/news/2007/9/16/2007HonoraryAwardRecips Meet the 2007 Honorary Award Recipients]</ref>
-*1994 - The first [[Robert Chesley]] Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay and Lesbian Playwrighting.
+*1994 - The first [[Robert Chesley Award]] for Lifetime Achievement in Gay and Lesbian Playwrighting.
 *Numerous "best play" honors, including: 1982: ''The Villager'' and the Chambers-Blackwell Best Play citations for ''Street Theater''; 2002-3: oobr Award for ''A Perfect Relationship''; 2007: nomination of the 2007 Lambda Award for the revival of ''And He Made a Her''.
+==The Doric Wilson Awards==
-== References & further reading ==
+There are two theater awards named for Doric Wilson.
+The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival has presented the Doric Wilson Award for International Cultural Dialogue Through Theater every year since 2011. The award is presented each year at the Festival Gala to an artist or company whose work has created new or innovative dialogue about LGBTQ issues.
+The [[New York Independent Theater Awards]] have presented the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award since 2012. The award is given to a playwright whose writing "honors the innovation, uncompromising vision, heart, and spirit that was Doric Wilson and his work."<ref>{{cite web |title=The League of Independent Theater - Honorary Awards |url=https://www.litny.org/nyita |publisher=League of Independent Theater |access-date=11 September 2023}}</ref>
+==References==
+;Footnotes
+{{reflist}}
+;General citations
 *Bottoms, Stephen J. ''Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement''. 2004. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 2004.
 *Carter, David. ''Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution''. New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
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 *Crespy, David A. ''Off-Off-Broadway Explosion: How Provocative Playwrights of the 1960s Ignited a New American Theater''. New York: Back Stage Books, 2003.
 *Loughery, John. ''The Other Side of Silence''. New York City, Henry Holt and Company, 1998
+*Schildcrout, Jordan. "Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson's ''Street Theater''," ''Modern Drama'' 61:1, 82-105, Spring 2018.
 *Stone, Wendell C. ''Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway''. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
 *Solomon, Alisa & Minwalla, Framji. ''The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater''. New York City, New York: New University Press, 2002.
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 ==External links==
+* {{IMDb name|3059540}}
-* [http://www.doricwilson.com Doric Wilson's website] includes free download of his major plays.
+* {{iobdb name|15792}}
-* [http://www.tosos2.org TOSOS theater company]
-* [http://caffecino.wordpress.com/ Caffe Cino Picture Pages.] Many images of Wilson and his work.
+* [http://www.doricwilson.com Doric Wilson website (includes free download of his major plays)], doricwilson.com
+* [http://www.tosos2.org TOSOS theater company website], tosos2.org
+* [http://caffecino.wordpress.com/ Caffe Cino Picture Pages (includes many images of Wilson and his work)], caffecino.wordpress.com
+* [http://robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/videos-of-interviews 2 Part Interview with William M. Hoffman (pg. 14)], robertpatrickpersonal.wordpress.com
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-[[Category:American dramatists and playwrights]]
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+[[Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights]]
+[[Category:American gay writers]]
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+[[Category:Participants in the Stonewall riots]]

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