Robert O’Hara has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies, and the Herb Alpert Award. Broadway: Slave Play (Tony Nomination). Off Broadway: Oniell’s Long Days Journey Into Night, Shakespeare’s Richard III, Harris’ Slave Play, Salter and Guiria’s In the Continuum, McCraney’s The Brother/ Sister Plays (Part 2), Domingo’s Wild with Happy, Childs’ Bella: An American Tall Tale, Barnes’ BLKS at MCC, as well as his own plays, Mankind, Bootycandy, and Insurrection: Holding History. His upcoming work include Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun at the Public Theater and Anthony Davis’ Opera, X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM at the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has directed around the country including Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Mark Taper Forum/ CTG, The Alley, Primary Stages, Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theater, Wilma, City Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Goodman Theater, Alliance, Denver Theater Center, Playwrights Horizons. He has been a visiting Professor at DePaul University School of the Arts and has taught at Yale School of Drama, Tisch at New York University, and Columbia University SOA.