Lloyd Richards
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"Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play/Best Direction of a Play"1987 Fences (play)/Fences"Regional Theatre Tony Award/Regional Theatre Award"1991 Yale Repertory Theatre

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"Lloyd George Richards " (June 29, 1919 – June 29, 2006) was a Canadian-United States/American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus.

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He hears the language of his people.

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What those plays did for the black theater community was tremendous.

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For me, it was easy to work with him. He was so very knowledgeable, but he was ready to listen, and he did.

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