Broadway Director Kenny Leon Opens Theater Doors To New Audiences

  Stage director Kenny Leon got his start at Atlanta’s own Alliance Theater, and today, he is one of the most sought-after creative talents on Broadway, even if he isn’t a household name. He’s guided Denzel Washington and Viola Davis to Tony Awards in a Tony-winning revival of August Wilson’s Fences, he directed Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in The Mountaintop, and he’s got two Broadway shows opening within three months of each other. NPR’s Jeff Lunden has this profile.

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