page_title: Ricardo Khan
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caption_attribution_description: English: Ricardo "Rick" Khan is an actor, director and artistic director. He is co-founder and artistic director emeritus of Tony-Award winning African-American theatre company Crossroads Theatre of New Jersey. His plays include Fly, Sheila's Day, Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, and Freedom Riders.His father was Trinidadian.
context_page_description: Ricardo "Rick" Khan is an American playwright and theater director of African and Indian descent. He co-founded the Tony Award winning and highly influential Crossroads Theatre Company of New Jersey, and is an acclaimed director on both American and International stages. As a writer, Khan saw his first play, Fly, premiered in 2007 at Lincoln Center Institute of Lincoln Center in New York and then at Crossroads, go on to win multiple NAACP Theater Awards in 2018. The play, co-authored with writer Trey Ellis and directed by Khan, has been lauded as a highly innovative and moving theatrical play that makes use of many mediums to tell the story and the trials and triumphs of American World War II heroes, the Tuskegee Airmen. Other plays written or co-written by Khan include Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, Freedom Rider, and Letters From Freedom Summer.
context_section_description: Ricardo "Rick" Khan is an American playwright and theater director of African and Indian descent. He co-founded the Tony Award winning and highly influential Crossroads Theatre Company of New Jersey, and is an acclaimed director on both American and International stages. As a writer, Khan saw his first play, Fly, premiered in 2007 at Lincoln Center Institute of Lincoln Center in New York and then at Crossroads, go on to win multiple NAACP Theater Awards in 2018. The play, co-authored with writer Trey Ellis and directed by Khan, has been lauded as a highly innovative and moving theatrical play that makes use of many mediums to tell the story and the trials and triumphs of American World War II heroes, the Tuskegee Airmen. Other plays written or co-written by Khan include Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, Freedom Rider, and Letters From Freedom Summer.
caption: Ricardo Khan in Trinidad, January 2019
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