Director

LaTanya Richardson
Jackson

LaTanya Richardson Jackson is a two-time Tony Award–nominated stage and screen actress, director, and producer. She recently returned to the Broadway stage and currently stars in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s explosive new play Purpose, directed by Phylicia Rashad. Most recently as a stage director, she made history as the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway with the 2022 Tony–nominated revival of The Piano Lesson. Her previous Broadway credits include her Tony–nominated lead performance as “Lena Younger” in A Raisin in the Sun as well as acclaimed turns in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone directed by Bartlett Sher. Her extensive onstage work also includes for colored girls…, Shakespeare in the Park’s The Taming of the Shrew, Unfinished Women…, and August Wilson’s Century Cycle, and she was a co-producer on the 2023 Tony–nominated revival of Purlie Victorious. Memorable onscreen performances include Show Me a Hero, Grey’s Anatomy, Luke Cage, You Hurt My Feelings, Losing Isaiah, Freedomland, The Fighting Temptations, and Sidney Lumet’s 100 Centre Street. She is a graduate of Spelman College where she and her husband recently opened the LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson Performing Arts Center.