Shipp was hired as the resident playwright for the non-touring company.
He became the resident playwright at Concept East, the oldest black theatre company in the US.
He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974-5 and has been a board member with them since 1985.
Cousins is the group's resident playwright and has been writing for them since 2005.
Alfian is currently the resident playwright of theatre group W!
In 1974, David Edgar was made resident playwright.
In 1980, he was resident playwright at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
And in the best of all possible worlds, he would be the resident playwright at TheaterWorks.
John Turturro, the film's director, stars as the resident playwright, whose newest work has been turned down.
Deborah Williams, another resident playwright, said putting the veterans and other disabled artists together "forces a whole new creative dynamic."