Actress Phylicia Rashad wasn’t interested in directing:
“I was having so much fun being an actress,” said Rashad (66), best known as everyone’s favorite mom, Clair Huxtable, from the 1984-92 NBC sitcom “The Cosby Show.” She’s also appeared on the stage, including the 2004 revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” for which she received a Tony Award for lead actress.
But then she got a call from Constanza Romero, the widow of award-winning playwright August Wilson. Romero asked Rashad to direct her husband’s drama “Gem of the Ocean” in a 2007 production at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Rashad starred in the play at the Mark Taper Forum in 2003 and earned a Tony nomination for the subsequent Broadway production.
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Rashad’s latest project is directing the comedy “Immediate Family,” which plays through June 3rd at the Mark Taper Forum. The play was written by Paul Oakley Stovall. Read a review here.
