Robert Alford II's work as a director includes Fences by August Wilson at Shreveport Little Theatre, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney & Ernest Gaines, The First Breeze of Summer by Leslie Lee and Hoffmansthals Electra at LSUS; Summers In Suffolk by Sheri Bailey at LSUS and the Center for Contemporary Arts and The Sweet Life by Michael David Quinn at the Yale Repertory Theatre.  His Los Angeles productions include A Summer Romance, A Summer Memory by Sheri Bailey at Mark Taper Forums New Works Festival, Life During Wartime by Wesley Brown at the Burbage Theatre, Or, by Felton Perry at the Complex, Walking With A Panther by Sheri Bailey at Theatre 6470, Buy the Bi and Bye by Felton Perry at the Richmond Shepard Theatre, The Amen Corner by James Baldwin at the Galilee Theatre and Sheri Bailey's A Summer Memory at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, the Inner City Cultural Center and UCLA.  Other productions include Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset, La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler, Loot by Joe Orton, For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, The Johnstown Vindicator by John Quincy Long, Uncommon Women & Others by Wendy Wasserstein and Home by Samm-Art Williams.  Mr. Alford was the assistant director of the Yale Repertory production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson, directed by Lloyd Richards.  Mr. Alford is an Assistant Professor of Communications at LSUS, teaching acting, film and public speaking. He previously served for 8 years as the director of St. Catherine Community Center in Cedar Grove, Louisiana.  In addition to producing and directing the short film Summer Dreams in 2003, Mr. Alford and Nancy Cheryll Davis also partnered in directing the Virginia premier of Summers In Suffolk at The Douglas Wilder Theatre in Norfolk in 1997.  Mr. Alford is a graduate of Shreveport's Notre Dame High School, Louisiana State University and the Yale School of Drama.  Mr. Alford is the son of Lt. Col. Robert Alford and Billie Mims Alford.  Robert and Shreveport City Court Judge LaLeshia Walker Alford are the proud parents of Kieran Alford.