He is an associate professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.

[1] After finishing high school, he studied playwriting and dramatic literature at Howard University and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1967.

[4] The Jarboro Company of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club took Black Terror on tour in Italy in 1972, performing it alongside five one-act plays by Ed Bullins.

The play portrays six fictional graduates of Howard University (a realtor, an advertising agent, a middle manager at a Fortune 500 firm, a Republican) who have succeeded, but feel guilty about betraying their origins.

Wesley considered bringing The Mighty Gents character of Essex Braxton, who achieved financial success through loan sharking and prostitution after leaving the gang, into The Talented Tenth, but dropped the idea as too artificial.