- 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."
- 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.
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