Gavin Dillon Lawrence

Gavin Dillon Lawrence
Playwright & Director, The Death of Chuck Brown

Here at APT, Mr. Lawrence most recently directed August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size. His other work as a director, playwright and composer has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Mixed Blood Theatre, Chicago Theatre Company, LatiNegro Theatre and Penumbra Theatre where he wrote and arranged the original music for Waiting In Vain. His play, Cut Flowers, garnered five Black Theatre Alliance awards in Chicago including the Lorraine Hansberry award for Best Writing Of A Play. His tribute to his grandmother, Salt Fish and Bakes, was named Best New Script by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He dedicates this production to his son, Jabari Ade, who inspired it from the beginning!