Director

LaTanya Richardson
Jackson

LaTanya Richardson Jackson is a three-time Tony Award–nominated stage and screen actress, director, and producer. She recently starred on Broadway in Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Purpose, for which she received Tony, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations, and was honored with Black Women on Broadway’s Audra McDonald Legacy Award. Her previous stage credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Tony nomination), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lilly Award), and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, among many. As a director, she made history as the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway with the Tony–nominated revival of The Piano Lesson. Next, she will direct Geffen Playhouse’s June 2026 production of Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous. Her screen credits include Show Me A Hero (NAACP Image Award nomination), Grey’s Anatomy, Luke Cage, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, 100 Centre Street, Freedomland, Losing Isaiah, The Fighting Temptations, U.S. Marshals, Mother and Child, and You Hurt My Feelings. She also executive produced The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Enslaved, and the upcoming Frisco King. She is a graduate of Spelman College, where she opened the LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson Performing Arts Center. For her decades-long dedication to the theater, she was honored with the NAACP Theater Award’s 2016 Trailblazer Award. In recognition of her career achievements and civic engagement, she has been named a 2026 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood distinguished honoree.