Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards ( born June 29, 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, † June 29, 2006 in New York City, USA ) was an American actor and theater director.
Life
The son of Jamaican immigrants who worked in a barbershop long was 1959 known when he staged on Broadway as the first black director a piece of the unknown black playwright Lorraine Hansberry. The play A Raisin in the Sun, which is about the lives of black workers and family Younger on March 11, 1959, its premiere, despite negative predictions was a great success. The staging was performed 530 times, and is now considered a milestone of American theater and social history.
Richards brought 1984, August Wilson's Ma Rainey 's Black Bottom to Broadway. In addition, he supported Wendy Wasserstein, Christopher Durang, Lee Blessing and David Henry Hwang.
Lloyd Richards died on 29 June 2006, his 87th birthday, of a heart attack.