Written by Tony Norman
June 26, 2025
Featuring TyLie Shider
June 22025 Cohort

When he was a 17-year-old freshman at Delaware State University, playwright TyLie Shider was introduced to the works of August Wilson in a survey class called Modern Drama.

It was 2005 and the sheer honesty and humanity of Wilson’s work deeply moved the journalism major. It didn’t take long for the New Jersey native to fall in love with another discipline that relied on a different approach to truth-telling than the path he originally imagined for himself prior to taking the class.