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Ricardo Khan, Artistic Director
Ricardo Khan is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Crossroads Theatre
Company of New Brunswick, NJ. Under his direction, Crossroads won the 1999 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater, making it one of the nation’s most acclaimed African-American theater companies in history. Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Rutgers
University in 1997, he is currently a Director/Writer-In-Residence at the Lincoln Center Institute of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, and is a visiting professor for the graduate school for theatre at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. In1989, he was co-chair of the National Endowment for the Arts’ theater advisory panel and from 1996-2000 was the President of Theatre Communications Group, the national organization of American professional theatres. In recent years Khan has also formed an exciting new multi-national writers’ collective called The World Theatre Lab, involving nearly 30
international writers and based in Johannesburg, London and New York.
Of the nearly 50 professional productions he has directed, Ricardo conceived and directed the award-winning Black Eagles, about the famed Tuskegee Airmen of WWII, for the Manhattan TheatreClub in New York City, Crossroads, and Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He also directed West Memphis Mojo at the Negro Ensemble Company in New York; And Further Mo,’ which played at Crossroads and The Village Gate in New York City; Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz at the world famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem, NY; and The Darker Face of the Earth, by former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove, for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Crossroads, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. His recent directing projects have included Trevor Rhone’s Two Can Play at Queens Theatre in the Park and the Crossroads Theatre; a musical on the life of Nelson Mandela, which he workshopped at the Windybrow Theatre in South Africa and premiered at the Crossroads in 2004; Color Me Dark for the Kennedy Center and Yo Soy Latina! Most recently, Ricardo served as Associate Director of Hot Feet on Broadway in 2006, and is the Co-writer and Director of FLY at Lincoln Center Institute in New York.
Marshall Jones III, Executive Director
Marshall Jones III is currently a tenure-track theater professor at the prestigious Mason Gross School of the Arts at
Rutgers University who has almost twenty-five years of experience in a wide variety of key
executive positions at some of New York city’s most reputable institutions including the world famous Apollo Theater (General Manager), the world’s most famous arena—Madison Square Garden (Company Manager), the historic landmark Radio City Music Hall (Producer), and “Disney” On Broadway’s The Lion King. Marshall earned a BA in Theater Arts from Rutgers University and an MA in Arts Management from New York University. He is also a member of the New Brunswick Arts Council. Marshall also proudly serves on the Board of Directors of several professional organizations including the Alliance for the Inclusion in the Arts (formerly Non-Traditional Casting Project); the American Conference on Diversity; and Blackberry Productions. Many thanks to the females in his life— JJ, CJP, DI, SLJ.
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Lou Kady
Tyrha M. Lindsey
Marguerite Mitchell-Ivey
Brad Neilley
Richard A. Nurse
Ed Spencer
Delores Still
Donna Taliaferro
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