 The next year Penny's friend, August Wilson, brought his play "Homecoming" to Kuntu; it was his first play to be produced by a resident company.The theater group remained part of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Africana Studies through the 2010-2011 season when Lillie retired as a professor at Pitt.Wilson, Penny, and poet Maisha Baton also started the Kuntu Writers Workshop to bring African-American writers together in discussion and to assist them in publication and production.