Kenny Leon is a Tony® Award and Obie Award-winning and Emmy®-nominated Broadway and television director. Most recently, he directed the Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, “A Soldier’s Play.” He also directed The Underlying Chris at Second Stage Theatre Company and this past summer’s acclaimed production of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Delacorte/Shakespeare in the Park. His other Broadway titles include: “American Son”; “Children of a Lesser God”; “Holler If Ya Hear Me”; “A Raisin in the Sun” (Tony® Award; 2014); The Mountaintop; “Stick Fly”; “August Wilson’s Fences”; “Gem of the Ocean”; and “Radio Golf”. Leon has also directed for projects off-Broadway comprising of “Everybody’s Ruby,” “Emergence-See!” (The Public), “Smart People” (Second Stage). His work in television includes “American Son” (adapted for Netflix for which he just earned an Emmy® nomination), “Hairspray Live!,” “The Wiz Live!,” “Steel Magnolias,” “Dynasty,” “In My Dreams.” He is the author of “Take You Wherever You Go” and is the former artistic director of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company.