Israel Theo Hicks Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Israel Theo Hicks (August 23, 1943 – July 3, 2010) was an American theatre director who produced works at regional theaters around the country and Off Broadway, and was best known for his stagings of the entire series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the U.S. during and following the Great Migration.
[on August Wilson's plays]: To me, August's plays are familiar clothing. His characters are like members of my family, my uncles, and aunts.
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[on being asked to direct all of August Wilson's plays]: Hell, yeah.
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Fact
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His daughter, Victoria Hicks, with his first wife, Catherine Hicks, was permanently injured in a 1993 automobile accident and predeceased him.
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He graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts in 1967 with a Bachelor's Degree and earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from New York University in New York City.