Won Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as Best Director (Play) for
August Wilson's
"Fences." He has been Tony-nominated on five other occasions: as Best
Director (Dramatic), in 1960 for
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun;" as
Best Director (Play) in 1988 for
August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and
Gone," and in 1996 for
August Wilson's "Seven Guitars;" and in 1990 as both
Best Director (Play) and one of the co-producers of Best Play nominee,
August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson."