Sandra G. Shannon

Tuesday February 7, 1 - 2 pm: Roscoe Orman and the legacy of August Wilson

Roscoe Orman, who joined the cast of Sesame Street as Gordon in 1973, appears this month in August Wilson’s “Jitney” at the Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University. He talks about his role as “Becker” in the Wilson play. Also joining us to talk about the works of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Sandra G. Shannon, one of the nation's leading Wilson scholars and a professor of drama at Howard University; Shirley Basfield Dunlap, associate professor of fine arts at Morgan and the director of "Jitney."



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