Gene and Anne Wilson Endowed Theatre Scholarship

Gene and Anne Wilson
(Gene 1920-2002)

Gene Wilson served on the faculty in Speech and Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 1965-1982.  He received his MFA from Yale and began his career at Whitewater as an associate professor.  Professor Wilson was the first person in the UW system to be named full professor without a Ph.D. 

While serving as technical director of Whitewater’s University Theatre, Professor Wilson designed Fort Atkinson’s Fireside Dinner Theatre in the early 1970s.  Before serving as a technical director at Whitewater he was a technical director and productions director for the Boone, North Carolina staging of “Horn in the West,” a massive outdoor theatre production which pays tribute to Daniel Boone.

Anne Wilson also participated in UW-Whitewater campus activities as President of the “Whitewater Faculty Dames” of Whitewater State University.

The Gene and Anne Wilson Endowed Theatre Scholarship was established in 1997.  It is awarded each year to theatre majors who have distinguished themselves academically and have shown strong potential for a successful career in theatre.