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Lloyd Richards

Age: 87

pioneering force in theater and Broadway's first African American director who staged the premiere production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in 1959. He collaborated with August Wilson for 15 years and won a Tony Award for directing the playwright's Fences.

Died: Manhattan, June 29, 2006

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