Israel Hicks

ISRAEL HICKS MEMORIAL - Monday October 4, 2010 Please join us in honoring the late Israel Hicks. Mr. Hicks was the Founding Artistic Director for Ebony Repertory Theatre and directed Two Trains Running and Crowns. The memorial service for Israel Hicks will be 7:30 PM Mon Oct 4th at Ebony Repertory Theatre @ the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center 4718 W. Washington Blvd

In 2007, Mr. Hicks became the Founding Artistic Director of Ebony Repertory Theatre where he has directed Two Trains Running and CROWNS.

For almost 20 seasons, Mr. Hicks was Associate Artist of the Denver Center Theater Company (DCTC) where he made history as the first director in the world to have helmed August Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle for the same theatre company. Other DCTC directing credits include the world premieres of Pork Pie: A Mythic Jazz Fable, Waiting to be Invited, Kingdom, Coming of the Hurricane, and Evil Little Thoughts, as well as Pork Pie: A Mythic Jazz Fable, Waiting to be Invited, Kingdom, Coming of the Hurricane, and Evil Little Thoughts, and Home. His final production for DCTC was the Lorraine Hansberry classic, A Raisin in the Sun.

In addition, he has directed at regional theaters throughout the country, including The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Mr. Hicks had recently directed Two Trains Running at the Kennedy Center’s August Wilson’s 20th Century. He has directed films for the National Film Board of Canada, Universal Studios, and for the NBC and CBS television networks.

Mr. Hicks also held the position of Artistic Director and Chairman of the Theater Arts Program at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Israel Hicks and Wren T. Brown	Crowns Cast Photo