Gus Edwards

Gus Edwards was born on 8 March 1939 in Antigua and grew up in St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. Arriving in New York in 1959, he wanted to be an actor, trained with Stella Adler, took small film roles and lived on bar and restaurant jobs; since his accent closed roles to him, he began to write. A self-taught playwright, one of the first Caribbean figures in American theatre, he later taught dramatic writing and was a professor at Arizona State University until 2010.

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• TheatreThe OfferingGus Edwards · 1977Literature