{"id":73501,"date":"2015-10-13T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2015\/10\/13\/denzel-washington-to-direct-episode-of-greys-anatomy\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:38:10","slug":"denzel-washington-to-direct-episode-of-greys-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/denzel-washington-to-direct-episode-of-greys-anatomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington To Direct Episode Of Grey’s Anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denzel Washington To Direct Episode Of Grey’s Anatomy<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

October 13, 2015<\/p>\n

Source: TVLine<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to TVLine<\/a>, two-time Oscar winner and Tony\u00a0Award winner\u00a0Denzel Washington<\/strong> will direct an upcoming episode of ABC’s long-running\u00a0Shonda Rhimes<\/strong> series\u00a0Grey Anatomy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Washington will direct this season\u2019s ninth episode that will shoot later this month. The series is now in its 12 season.<\/p>\n

This marks the first time that Washington, who made his directorial debut with Antwone Fisher<\/strong> in 2002,\u00a0followed by\u00a0The Great Debaters<\/strong> in 2007, has directed for the small screen.<\/p>\n

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Should Washington decide to also act in the episode, he would be returning to a familiar position. From 1982 to 1988, he played Dr. Phillip Chandler in NBC’s television hospital drama St. Elsewhere<\/a><\/i><\/strong>, and was one of only a few African-American actors to appear on the series for its entire six-year run.<\/p>\n

Most recently, he announced that he will direct and exec produce all 10 of August Wilson’s plays for HBO<\/span> over the next\u00a0decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m directing, producing \u2014 and acting in one (Fences<\/em>) \u2014 and I\u2019m executive producing the other nine,\u201d<\/strong> he told “The Notorious Ph. D”\u00a0Todd Boyd during \u201cAn Evening With Denzel Washington\u201d at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. \u201cI\u2019m really excited about that \u2014 that [the\u00a0estate]\u00a0would put that in my hands and trust me,\u201d Washington said tonight. \u201cThat\u2019s good enough for me. It doesn\u2019t get any better than that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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