AAFCA to honor Wendell Pierce & LaTanya Jackson

Finally, Tony-nominated actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who is making her Broadway directorial debut with the August Wilson classic “The Piano Lesson,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Tony-nominated “The Color Purple” actress Danielle Brooks, and John David Washington in his first Broadway role, as well as history as the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway, will receive the Vanguard Award. Plus there is an unannounced addition to the program that makes this celebration all the more special. 

“The intersectionality that exists between the theater, TV, and film communities needs to be celebrated,” says producer Debra Martin Chase, “The intersectionality that exists between the theater, tv and film communities needs to be celebrated,” says Tony Award-winning producer Debra Martin Chase (“A Strange Loop”), who is also a producer for the CBS series “The Equalizer ” and the feature film HARRIET. “I am absolutely thrilled that AAFCA continues to do the work of championing artists in these spaces.”