By Veronica Wells· Updated December 12, 2022
In sixth grade, an adolescent LaTanya Richardson Jackson tried to make fun of a fellow student. Thinking she’d embarrass him, she instructed him to complete a series of actions. When he did, instead of being met with ridicule, her peers applauded the boy.Jackson, on the other hand, was left standing there with egg on her face, saying to herself, “Well, that didn’t go as planned.”
That was a moment that never left Richardson Jackson, who says she learned two things that day: (1)Don’t ever try to make fun of people and (2) you just might know how to tell people what to do–in a creative way that is.
It was true. Today, at 73 years old, Jackson is the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway.
The Piano Lesson, starring
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