To Woodie's credit he is founder and Producing Director of New Federal Theatre in New York City. New Federal Theatre (NFT) has presented over 150 productions in its 27 year history. Mr. King has produced Off-Broadway and on Broadway. He co-produced For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, What the Winesellars Buy, Reggae and The Taking of Miss Janie (Drama Circle Critics Award). His directorial credits are extensive and include work in film as well as theatre. He directed at Cleveland Playhouse, Stagewest, Virginia Museum Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Northlight Theatre and New Federal Theatre, The Ensemble Studio, Arena Stage, GeVa Theatre, American Place Theatre, Jomandi Theatre, Center Stage of Baltimore, Indiana Repertory Company, Studio Arena in Buffalo, and New York Shakespeare Festival.

In 1985, he was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Boesman and Lena; in 1986, he won an Audelco Award for Appear and Show Cause and in the 1987-88 season he won a NAACP Image Award for directing Checkmates at Inner City Cultural Center (Los Angeles). He directed Checkmates on Broadway. In 1987, he directed Charles Dutton in Splendid Mummer at American Place Theatre; in 1990, God's Trombones at the Ford's Theatre, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Detroit Rep. In 1991, he directed a new production of A Raisin in the Sun and in 1992 he directed The Member of the Wedding, both at GeVa. In 1993, he directed Good Black Don't Crack at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn and produced and directed Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil, for which he won Audelco Awards as Best Director and Best Play of the Year. That year he directed Checkmates at the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre. In 1994, he directed And the World Laughs With You at Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick, NJ; Mudtracks by Regina Tayolor at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and A Raisin in the Sun at the Lliance Theatre in Atlanta. In the 1995-96 season Mr. King directed Eyes (based on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God) by Mari Evans at the American Cabaret Theatre in Indianapolis, and Checkmates at the New Federal Theatre. In the 1996-97 season he directed Joe Turner's Come and Gone at Brooklyn College. He recently directed Home at Brooklyn College. Mr. King is the recipient of a 1996-97 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement.

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