WVU alumnus to be first to have play featured in Contemporary American Theater Festival - Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University

The first play by a West Virginia native will be premiered at the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) this summer.

That play, “Did My Grandfather Kill My Grandfather?,” was written by Cody LeRoy Wilson.

“Being a West Virginia native and being able to come back to West Virginia to do something like this is, honestly, a dream,” Wilson said.

Wilson spent the early years of his childhood growing up on his grandparents’ farm in Plum Run, before moving to Fairmont with his mother and older sister. He graduated from Fairmont Senior High School and earned the Promise Scholarship, which he used to attend West Virginia University…