Ricardo Khan is a director, writer, educator and Tony Award-winning Artistic Director. He co- founded the Crossroads Theatre Company, one of history’s few African American theatres to ever rise to both national and international prominence as a major professional arts institution.

As a producer and director he has worked with luminaries such as Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, George C. Wolfe, Anna Deavere Smith, Melba Moore, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove and many more. He was Associate Producer for a number of Crossroads productions at the New York Public Theatre for the late Joseph Papp, and in 2005, with co-producer Woodie King, Jr., presented the Broadway tribute to August Wilson in the NY theatre that now bares Mr. Wilson’s name. Mr. Khan’s other directing credits include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, the Market Theatre in South Africa, Ford’s Theatre, the Negro Ensemble Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Village Gate and the world famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem. As a writer, he co-wrote the NAACP award-winning “FLY” with Trey Ellis about the esteemed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, “Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing”, also with Ellis, “Freedom Rider”, and “When Day Comes”, starring the internationally acclaimed singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock. Most recently, at the request of international film and theatre icon, John Kani, he travelled to Johannesburg to serve as director of South Africa’s first ever production of August Wilson’s “Fences” at the Joburg Theatre.

He was the Producer of the 2016 opening night gala ceremonies for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC with performers and creatives that included Yolanda Adams, Daniel Beaty, Dave Chappelle and Frederic Yonnet, Ava Duvernay, Savion Glover, Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder.

Ricardo Khan holds a BA in Psychology from Rutgers College, 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. He served as President of the Board of the national theatre service organization, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and is Artistic Director at the Crossroads Theatre Company.