Edward Artie Bullins (July 2, 1935 – November 13, 2021), sometimes publishing as Kingsley B. Bass Jr,[1] was an American playwright.

[8] After completing his G.E.D., Bullins enrolled in Los Angeles City College and began writing short stories for Citadel, a magazine he started.

[14] Black House eventually split into two opposing factions: one group, led by Eldridge Cleaver, considered art to be a weapon and advocated joining with "all oppressed people", including whites, to bring about a socialist revolution;[15] while the other group, represented by Marvin X and Baraka, considered art to be a form of cultural nationalism.

[17] The director Robert Macbeth read Bullins' plays and asked him to join the New Lafayette Players, a theatrical group.

[18][19] The first production the New Lafayette Players performed was a trilogy called The Electronic Nigger and Others at the American Place Theatre.

During these years, ten of Bullins's plays were produced by the Players, including In the Wine Time and Goin' a Buffalo.

During these years, Bullins wrote two children's plays, titled I Am Lucy Terry and The Mystery of Phillis Wheatley.

[23] Bullins later returned to school, and received a bachelor's degree in English and playwriting from Antioch University in San Francisco.

[1] In addition to playwriting, Bullins wrote short stories and novels, including The Hungered One and The Reluctant Rapist.

[2] Samuel A. Hay, Bullins's biographer, writes that Bullins rejected models of theater advanced by Amiri Baraka, who wrote and promoted protest art, and Alain LeRoy Locke, who suggested that Black playwrights should condemn racism by producing "well-made plays".

[25] Instead, Hay argues, Bullins's writing aimed to "get people upset by making them look at racism in totally new ways".