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Alive with pleasure!
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WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST

Repertory Theater, Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage and the Old Globe in San Diego. It opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in the spring of 1988 and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Piano Lesson premiered at the Yale Repertory Theater and played at the Huntington Theater in Boston, Chicago's Goodman Theater, the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, the Kennedy Center and the Doolittle Theater in Los Angeles. Mr. Wilson's latest play, Two Trains Running, recently had its world premiere at the Yale Repertory Theater. Mr. Wilson is the recipient of several fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting, and he was named a winner of the Whiting Writers Award. He is also a member of New Dramatists in New York. A native of Pittsburgh, he now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife Judy Oliver, and daughter Sakina Ansari.
LLOYD RICHARDS (Director/Producer) is now in his eleventh year as dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theater. The Piano Lesson marks Mr. Richards' fourth collaboration with playwright August Wilson, following Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone. They have since inaugurated a fifth, Two Trains Running, which recently premiered at the Yale Rep. Mr. Richards was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Director for two of these plays and received the award for the Broadway production of Fences, which premiered at YRT in 1985. At the Yale Repertory Theater, he has also directed Timon of Athens, Hedda Gabler, Uncle Vanya, Johnny Bull, A Doll's House, A Touch of the Poet, Major Barbara and Cobb. Prior to joining YSD/YRT in 1979, Mr. Richards had established himself as artist, educator, innovator and administrator. He acted and directed on and Off-Broadway, as well as in radio and television, winning recognition (and his first Tony nomination) early in his career for his direction of the original production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Since 1965, he has been affiliated with the National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, serving as its artistic director since 1968. Mr. Richards was president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers for 10 years, president of the Theater Development Fund for three years, and recently completed a term as president of Theater Communications Group. He currently serves on the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and since 1985, when he was appointed by President Reagan, has served as the first representative from nonprofit professional theater on the National Council for the Arts. The many honors accorded him in recent years include one from the Writers Guild of America to "one whose contribution to the writing community has brought honor and dignity to writers everywhere."

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