Artist Profiles
Phylicia Rashad
A two-time Tony Award winner (A Raisin in the Sun and Skeleton Crew), her directing credits include Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Our Lady of 121st Street, The Roommate, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2014 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Director), Immediate Family, Fences, A Raisin in the Sun and Four Little Girls. Producing credits include and Ossie Davis’ revival of Purlie Victorious on Broadway and PBS film (KCET-TV) “The Old Settler.” Ms. Rashad currently serves as Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University.