Canadian actor
Won Broadways 1987 Tony Award as Best Director (Play) for August Wilson s "Fences." He has been Tony-nominated on five other occasions: as Best Director , in 1960 for Lorraine Hansberry s "A Raisin in the Sun;" as Best Director (Play) in 1988 for August Wilson s "Joe Turners Come and Gone," and in 1996 for August Wilson s "Seven Guitars;" and in 1990 as both Best Director (Play) and one of the co-producers of Best Play nominee, August Wilson s "The Piano Lesson."
He was a theatrical director.
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1993 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
Born in Toronto to Jamaican parents. His father was a supporter and a follower of black nationalist Marcus Garvey.
Grew up in Detroit.
He was nominated for a 1990 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Director of a Play for "The Piano Lesson" on Broadway in New York City.
He was awarded the 1990 Drama-Logue Award for Best Direction for "The Piano Lesson" in a Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson and Yale Repertory Theatre production at the James A. Doolittle Theatre (University of California) in Los Angeles, California.
He was awarded the 1992 Drama-Logue Award for Direction for "Two Trains Running" in the 25th Anniversary Season presented by Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle Theatre (University of California) in Los Angeles, California.
He was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Direction for "Seven Guitars" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
He was nominated for the 1996 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Director of a Play for "Seven Guitars" on Broadway in New York City.
