Lloyd Richards

Lloyd Richards
Lloyd George Richardswas a Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 June 1919
five great improved learned learning readers rejected sixth time
He was really a neophyte when I first read his work. The O'Neill had rejected it five times, but the sixth time one of my readers said he had improved a great deal. He had learned to write dialogue, and now he was learning to write confrontations between two people.
easy ready work
For me, it was easy to work with him. He was so very knowledgeable, but he was ready to listen, and he did.
black community plays theater
What those plays did for the black theater community was tremendous,