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earned his MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University and was the Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Northeastern University in Boston. His professional playwriting career began in 1965 with the production of How Do You Do, Dialect Determinism (or The Rally) and Clara’s Ole Man at the Firehouse Repertory Theatre in San Francisco. He later became the Resident Playwright and Associate Director at Robert Macbeth’s New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, New York, where Bullins headed the Black Theatre Workshop which gave starts to Richard Wesley, OyamO, and Martie Charles.