Rawson is active in several theater organizations . He is a board member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame , for which he helps supervise the annual nominations and balloting for the selection of new inductees . He has long been active in the American Theatre Critics Association , which he has twice served as chair ( 1991 – 93 and 2007 – 11 ) and for which he has organized conferences in London , at Connecticut 's O'Neill Theater Center , at Canada 's Shaw and Stratford Festivals and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ; as of 2019 , he continues to chronicle its history through its website at www.americantheatrecritics.org . For some years he was on the editorial board of '' Best Plays '' , the standard theater yearbook established in 1920 by Burns Mantle Since 1968 , Rawson has been a member of the English faculty at the University of Pittsburgh , where he has taught courses primarily in satire , Shakespeare , critical writing , Irish drama , and the work of playwright August Wilson , whom he came to know well through covering his plays since 1984 for the playwright 's hometown newspaper of record . He is on the Board of Trustees ( as secretary ) of the Daisy Wilson Artist Community , named for Wilson 's mother , which is restoring the August Wilson House at 1727 Bedford Ave. in Pittsburgh 's Hill District , where Wilson lived his first 13 years and where his American Century Cycle of 10 plays can be said to have begun
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