“William
Gibson Interview.” Interview by
Mike Wood. Camera by Lonny
Quattlebaum. Edit by Steve Worley. December 9, 2004.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Site hosted by
The William Inge Center for the Arts.
Video hosted by
Wichita State University.
William Gibson
was born in New York but had his first plays produced in the
Topeka Civic Theatre in the 1940's. He wrote I Lay in Zion,
A Cry of Players, Dinny and the Witches, Two for the Seesaw,
The Miracle Worker, a musical version of Odets' Golden Boy,
John and Abigail, The Body and the Wheel, The Butterfingers
Angel, Mary and Joseph, Herod the Nut, The Slaughter of
Twelve Hit Carols in a Pear Tree, Golda, Monday after the
Miracle, and Goodly Creatures. He had also written poetry, a
novel, and chronicles of play productions. He is best known
for The Miracle Worker, the story of Annie Sullivan's
struggle to overcome Helen Keller's blindness and deafness
by giving her the gift of language.
