Awards and Accomplishments
- Tony Award for best play for The River Niger, 1974
- Represented American Playwrights at seminar in Salzburg Austria
- Received the Guggenheim Award, 1973-74
- Antoinette Perry Award for best play of 1974
- Elizabeth-Kate Warriner Award
- First Annual Audelco Award
- Outer Critic's Circle, John Gassner Playwrighting Award
- The Obie Award
- Drama Desk Award
- Black Rose
- Professor of Theatre at Howard University, teaching advanced playwriting and advanced theatre, 1976-89
- Drama Department Chair the Duke Ellington School of Performing Arts held concurrently with Howard University professorship, 1978-79
- American College Theatre Award for best director and set design on Antigone Africanus produced at Howard University, 1978
- Recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's Playwrights Award, 1978 (for The Absolution of Willie Mae)
- Maryland State Arts Council Award for The Two Real Coons, 1980
- Wrote, directed and choreographed A Proper Zulu Man and King Kong at His Majesty's Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1979-80
- Co-Authored screenplay BOP for Dustin Hoffman and Michael Camino (Columbia Pictures), 1984-85
- Living Legend Award, 1995
- Worked with Rutgers University, Camden City Board of Education and Cynthia Primas to launch what is now the Creative Arts High School, 1998
- Theatre Arts Chairman and Director of African American Studies at Rutgers University Camden, 1989-2003
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