ACCOLADES / ACCOMPLISHMENTS 

• Outstanding Organization of The Year Award from 100 Black Men, 2013

• The Citizen of The Year Award from the Gateway Classic Foundation, 2013

• U.S. Delegation to the Third World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures in Dakar, Senegal, 2010

• Distinguished Alumni Award from University College at Washington University, 2007

• St. Louis 2004 Heroes Pierre Laclede Award

• The first Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence at Washington University, a joint appointment of the Performing Arts Department, African and African American Studies, 2003

• Lifetime Achievement Award, The Arts & Education Council, 2001

• Creative Artist Award, The Better Family Life, 1997

• Washington University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Life and Legacy Award from the National Pan-Hellenic Alumni Council, 1997

• Woodie Award for Outstanding Direction, the St. Louis Black Repertory Company, 1993

• Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1993

CREDITS

Directing credits

• Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope

• Nina Simone: Four Women

• Dot

• Lines In The Dust

• Twisted Melodies

• Sunset Baby, Purlie

• Black Nativity: A Holiday Celebration, the critically acclaimed productions of Ruined and The Montford Point Marine

• Creator and Director of the highly acclaimed Crossin’ Over and Tell Me Somethin’ Good.

Directing credits of world premieres

• Torn Asunder

• Smash/Hit!

• Insidious

• Home the Musical

• Servant of the People

• Riffs and Urban Transitions: Loose Blossoms

Directing credits from theatres across the country

• Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Fences (The Clarence Brown Theatre in Knoxville)

• The Colored Museum and Blues for an Alabama Sky (Indiana Repertory Theatre)

• Flyin’ West (Delaware Theatre Company)

• For Colored Girls (People’s Light and Theatre Company in Philadelphia)

• Riffs (Seven Stages in Atlanta)

• Spunk, Spell #7 and Radio Golf (Studio Theatre in Washington, DC)

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and I’m Not Rappaport (Old Creamery Theatre in Garrison, IA)

• An Enemy of the People (Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, AK).

University and College credits

• Crumbs From The Table Of Joy and Our Town (University of Southern Indiana in Evansville)

• Intimate Apparel, (University of Indiana in Bloomington)

• You Can’t Take It With You (University of Wisconsin in Madison)

• The Championship Season and The Dance on Widow’s Row (Dillard University in New Orleans)

• Three Ways Home (University of Illinois in Champaign)

• The Darker Face of the Earth (University of South Carolina in Columbia)

• Blues for Mr. Charlie, Hairspray, Ragtime, The Lion and The Jewel and Trojan Women (Washington University in St. Louis).