One of the most acclaimed directors in the American theatre, Wolfe will visit the Bloomington campus March 29-30. He will make one public appearance in an interview with Jonathan Michaelsen, chair of the Department of Theatre and Drama, in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre on Tuesday, March 29, at 5 p.m.

Wolfe has directed eleven shows on Broadway, including Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Tony Award) and Perestroika; Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (Tony Award); Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Topdog/Underdog (Obie Award); Twilight, Los Angeles: 1992 (Drama Desk Award); The Tempest; Jelly’s Last Jam (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards); The Wild Party, and most recently Caroline, or Change. He is the author of The Colored Museum and Spunk (adapted from Zora Neale Hurston), as well as book writer for the musicals The Wild Party and Jelly’s Last Jam. Additional directing credits include Harlem Song, created for the Apollo Theatre, Amistad, at Chicago’s Lyric Opera, Macbeth, Caucasian Chalk Circle and Radiant Baby. He was declared a “Living Landmark” by the New York City Landmark Conservancy, and from 1992 to 2004 served as Producer for the Public Theatre.

Now playing on HBO is Wolfe’s latest film accomplishment,Lackawanna Blues, starring Law and Order’s S. Epatha Merkerson. His stage project, Neil LaBute’s This Is How It Goes, opened at the Public Theatre in New York on March 8, featuring Ben Stiller, Marisa Tomei and Jeffrey Wright.

The Collins Lectures are named for the late Ralph Collins, former dean of faculties at IUB. As teacher and scholar, Collins was principally interested in the area of theatre and drama in which he published many articles in Modern Language Notes, Philosophical Quarterly, Theatre Annual and University of Kansas Review. For many years, he taught undergraduate courses in modern drama and in Shakespeare and a graduate seminar on George Bernard Shaw.