# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lloyd-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:25.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lloyd-richards"
name: "Lloyd Richards"
slug: "lloyd-richards"
description: "Lloyd George Richards  was a Canadian-American theatre director, and actor. While head of the National Playwrights Conference, he helped cultivate many of the most famous theater writers of the 20th century. He was also the dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and was the first Black director on Broadway."
tagline: "Theatrical director (1919–2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/LloydRichards.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1919-06-29"
deathDate: "2006-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump