The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Lloyd Richards

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Lloyd Richards

9/11/2001

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2001.064

Stage actor, academic administrator, and theater director Lloyd Richards (1919 - 2006 ) directed A Raisin in the Sun, Broadway's first play by an African American woman. Richards later became director of the National Playwrights' Conference at the O'Neill Theater and the dean of the prestigious Yale School of Drama as well as artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre. Richards died on his birthday on Thursday, June 29, 2006. Richards was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/11/2001, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 20m 15s

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Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006

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Lloyd Richards (1919-2006), director, educator, and actor. Among Richards's many professional appointments, he was Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre (1979-1991) and Artistic Director of the annual National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (1968-1999). From the description of Lloyd Richards papers, 1944-2004. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702181423 Lloyd George Richards was born on ...