Tony Award-nominated actress and director LaTanya Richardson Jackson, currently back on Broadway starring in the explosive new play Purpose, was honored with the unveiling of her Sardi’s caricature on behalf of her illustrious stage career and dedication to the American Theater.
Kenny Leon and LaTanya
Kenny Leon and LaTanya
Kenny Leon and LaTanya
Kenny Leon and LaTanya
Tony Award-winning director and longtime friend Kenny Leon was on-hand to present LaTanya with this honor.
Special guests included family, friends and colleagues.
LaTanya Richardson
LaTanya Richardson
LaTanya Richardson
LaTanya Richardson
LaTanya Richardson Jackson is a two-time Tony Award-nominated stage and screen actress, director and producer. She currently stars as “Claudine Jasper” in the new Broadway play, Purpose, from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Tony winner Phylicia Rashad.
Samuel L Jackson capturing the moment
LaTanya and Zoe Jackson….daughter
cast and creative of Purpose
Samuel L Jackson, LaTanya and Kenny Leon
Her onstage Broadway credits include “Lena Younger” in the 2014 revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (Tony nomination, Best Actress in a Play), as “Calpurnia” in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, and as “Bertha Holly” in the 2009 revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
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Samuel L, Jackson
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LaTanya abd Beowulf Boritt
She became the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway with the 2022 revival of The Piano Lesson, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks, which received a Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Play. She was also a co-producer on the 2023 revival of Purlie Victorious (Tony nomination, Best Revival of a Play).
LaTanya and portrait
Samuel L Jackson, LaTanya
Samuel L Jackson, LaTanya
Samuel L Jackson, LaTanya
Her extensive stage work includes Shakespeare in the Park’s Taming of the Shrew, For Colored Girls…, Spell #7, Casanova, Unfinished Women, Stop Reset, and August Wilson’s Century Cycle.
Samuel L Jackson, LaTanya and Kenny Leon
Glenn Davis and LaTanya
Cast of Purpose
LaTanya, Kara Young, Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins (Playwright) and Alana Arenes
She also currently serves as Vice Chair of the American Theatre Wing’s Board of Trustees.
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LaTanya and Max Kilmavicius
LaTanya and Max Kilmavicius
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LaTanya and Max Kilmavicius
Her screen credits include the HBO limited series Show Me A Hero (NAACP Image Award nomination, Best Actress), ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Netflix’s Luke Cage, FX’s Damages, Blue Bloods, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Lumet’s 100 Centre Street and the films Freedomland, Losing Isaiah, The Fighting Temptations, U.S. Marshals, Juanita, Mother and Child, and Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings. As a screen producer, she executive produced the limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and the EPIX docuseries Enslaved; and as a filmmaker, she directed and starred in the acclaimed 2000 short film Hairstory, which will be revived for a Restoration West Coast Premiere this December at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.
Kenny, LaTanya and Max
LaTanya and Max Kilmavicius
Max Kilmavicius
She is a graduate of Spelman College where she and her husband recently opened the LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson Performing Arts Center.
Purpose is from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the Tony Award-winning playwright of Appropriate and directed by the two-time Tony Award-winning Phylicia Rashad comes Purpose.
The cast of Purpose includes LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, Jon Michael Hill, Glenn Davis, Alana Arenas and Kara Young. For tickets and info, visit: https://purposeonbroadway.com/
