 If he liked the answer, he staged the play.Many of the young playwrights who premiered their works at Cino's venue, including Doric Wilson (who would later found TOSOS, the first professional gay theatre), William M. Hoffman (who later wrote "As Is"), Robert Patrick ("Kennedy's Children"), John Guare ("Six Degrees of Separation"), Tom Eyen ("Dreamgirls"), Sam Shepard ("True West"), Robert Heide ("The Bed", filmed by Andy Warhol), Paul Foster ("Tom Paine"), Jean-Claude van Itallie ("America Hurrah"), and Lanford Wilson ("Burn This"); directors Tom O'Horgan ("Hair") and Marshall W. Mason ("Talley's Folly"); and actors such as Al Pacino and Bernadette Peters went on to significant commercial and critical success.Wilson's four hits in 1961 made him off-off-Broadway's first cult success and proved that there was an audience for new, daring plays.