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WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST on and Off-Broadway in Home (Tony nomination as Best Actor), The First Breeze of Summer, Nevis Mountain Dew, A Soldier's Play, The Great MacDaddy, The Brownsville Raid and The River Niger. Television includes: "Kennedy," "Bureau," "Family Reunion," "Kojak" and "The Equalizer." Also: Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. FRANKIE R. FAISON (Gabriel). Theater includes: On Broadway in Of Mice and Men (Brooks Atkinson); The Iceman Cometh (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway in Remembrance, British Honduras, Andrew, King Lear, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Black Body Blues, The Offering, The Great MacDaddy, Livin' Fat and The Brownsville Raid (Negro Ensemble Company). Films: Red Dragon, The Money Pit, Ragtime, Overdrive, The Exterminator II, C.H.U.D., Hanky Panky, Cat People, The Chosen and Willie Dynamite. Television includes: "Kate & Allie," "Sessions," "Another World," "Nurse," "Hot Hero Sandwich," "King Lear," "Tomorrow's Family," "Sesame Street" and numerous television commercials. He dedicates this performance to his wife, Jane, and his three daughters, Blake, Amanda and Rachel. KARIMA MILLER (Raynell). Theatre includes: AMAS Repertory Theatre in Oliver!, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, Carousel and, most recently, Bye Bye Birdie. She studied acting and voice with Rosetta LeNoire. She is making her Broadway debut in Fences. COURTNEY B. VANCE (Cory). Theatre includes: Fences; A Rasin in the Sun; Henry IV, Part I; and Rum and Coke (Yale Repertory); A Lesson from Aloes and Hamlet (Boston Shakespeare Company); Coriolanus, The Guiteau Burlesque and He Who Gets Slapped (Yale School of Drama). His past two summers have been spent at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Centre. Also: Two summers with Shakespeare and Company. Films: He has just finished a film called Hamburger Hill. He is a graduate of Harvard College. AUGUST WILSON (Playwright) is the author of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, all of which were developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference and premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre. Ma Rainey opened on Broadway in October 1984 to critical acclaim, won the New York Drama Critics Award. Fences, subsequently produced at several regional theatres, won the American Theatre Critics Association Award. His new play, The Piano Lesson, is scheduled for Yale Rep's '87-88 season. He is the recipient of Bush, McKnight, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships in playwriting and was named a winner of the Whiting Writer's Award. He is a member of New Dramatists in New York and of the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. Mr. Wilson is native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and lives in St. Paul, Minn., with his wife Judy Oliver. LLOYD RICHARDS (Director) is in his eighth year as Dean of the Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of the Repertory Theatre (YRT). He directed the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, and collaborated with August Wilson on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom for YRT and Broadway, and Fences and Joe Turner's Come Home and Gone at YRT and other regional theatres. Mr. Richards has served as president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and other prominent theatre organizations, and is a member of the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Since 1986 he has been Artistic Director of the National Play- [[NEXT PAGE]][[advertisement]] Premiering Monday, April 27th Lord & Taylor [[underline]] focus America: Savannah Welcome to Lord & Taylor, and a festive tribute to romantic, historic Savannah. American hospitality awaits you in this special visit to Savannah, the city that memory made. Savour Savannah now at Lord & Taylor. Sample the heritage, the culture, the cuisine. Discover Savannah's legendary homes and gardens, local crafts, fine art and fashions throughout the store. come explore romantic Savannah now at Lord & Taylor, Fifth Avenue at 39th.
