B/W photo of Lloyd Richards by P.Rankin- Smith mounted on art paper /board and signed on the margin by Lloyd Richards. The signature is authentic with provenance. Image size : 8.5 x 7.5 inches. Mount size: 11 x 14 inches. Lloyd George Richards (June 29, 1919 – June 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus. Born in Toronto, Ontario, raised in Detroit, Michigan. He studied law at Wayne University later finding theatrical arts after military service during World War II, in the U.S. Army Air Force. As head of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, he helped develop the careers of August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Christopher Durang, Lee Blessing, and David Henry Hwang. Richards also taught Moscow Art Theatre acting technique under Paul Mann at the Actor's Workshop in New York alongside Morris Carnovsky. Awards : 1987: Tony Award Best Direction of a Play – Fences; 1987: Tony Award Best Play - Fences 1990: Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play - The Piano Lesson; 1991: Regional Theatre Tony Award - Yale Repertory Theatre; 1993: National Medal of Arts; 2002: The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Wikipedia

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