[citation needed] Fuller vowed to become a writer after noticing that his high school's library had no books by African-American authors.
He achieved critical notice in 1969 with The Village: A Party, a drama about racial tensions between a group of mixed-race couples.
[citation needed] Fuller won an Obie Award for Zooman and the Sign in 1980, about a black Philadelphia teen who kills a young girl on her own front porch, and whose neighbors eventually rise up against him after being goaded out of their apathy by the girl's father with a sign.
Zooman presents himself as a helpless product of his society, but his victim's father convinces their neighbors that they need to stand together and achieve justice.
[citation needed] After this play, Fuller switched his focus to movies for several years, saying "I always wanted to reach the most people with my work.
In January 2020, A Soldier's Play finally debuted on Broadway in a production by the Roundabout Theatre Company, starring David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood and directed by Kenny Leon.
In 2010, he published his first novel, Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me, a work of children's fiction written for his two sons.