Lloyd Richards(1919-2006)

Won Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as Best Director (Play) for August Wilson's "Fences." He has been Tony-nominated on five other occasions: as Best Director (Dramatic), in 1960 for Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun;" as Best Director (Play) in 1988 for August Wilson's "Joe Turner's 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."