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Kenny Leon |
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KENNY LEON Broadway: Directing credits include August Wilson's Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean (five Tony nominations) and the Tony Award-winning revival of A Raisin in the Sun, both featuring Phylicia Rashad; for the latter, he earned a Drama Desk nomination. Off-Broadway/Regional: Emergence-See featuring Daniel Beaty, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and From the Mississippi Delta (Huntington Theatre), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Rep, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, CenterStage, Public Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theatre Center, GA Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage and the Theatre of the Stars. Leon is founding artistic director of True Colors Theatre Company, dedicated to diversity and the preservation of African-American classics; and served as artistic director of the Alliance Theatre for more than a decade, where he produced ten world premieres, including Elton John's Aida and Debbie Allen's Soul Possessed. Other recent credits include: world premiere of Toni Morrison's opera Margaret Garner and film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, soon to be released on television by Sony and ABC. Upcoming: collaboration with the Kennedy Center to pay homage to playwright August Wilson; the project will showcase all 10 of Wilson's plays in one concentrated package under Leon's artistic leadership. Leon is graduate and honorary PhD of Clark Atlanta University.
Bio as of May, 2007.
Working in the Theatre (video)
August Wilson's Legacy - May, 2007
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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