The Ground On Which We Stand

Creative Team Bios

RICARDO KAHN (Artistic Director- Crossroads Theatre) is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre Company. During the theatre’s first decades Khan nurtured and guided the creation of well over one hundred new works that have forever enriched the cannon of the American theatre. Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, George C. Wolfe, Anna Deveare Smith, Melba Moore, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee ~ these are of the many he opened up the doors of Crossroads for, providing them a unique, safe and sacred artistic home. His writing credits include the NAACP award-winning “FLY” co-written with Trey Ellis, about the esteemed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, “Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing”,  “Freedom ”, and its sequel, “Letters From Freedom Summer” which is still in development, and Rider“When Day Comes” with the internationally acclaimed singing group, Sweet Honey in the Rock. Mr. Khan was the Producer and Director of the 2016 opening night gala ceremonies for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, and was most recently the director of South Africa’s first ever production of August Wilson’s “Fences”. Ricardo Khan holds an MFA in both acting and directing from Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from Rutgers University where he is also in the University’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni.