Avery Brooks would play Willy Loman in a new production of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". Since 1976, Brooks has been married to Vicki Lenora Brooks an assistant dean at Rutgers University. The couple have three adult children: Ayana, Cabral, and Asante; and live in Princeton, New Jersey. Avery Brooks Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on "", as Hawk on "" and its spinoff "A Man Called Hawk", and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film "American History
Arthur Miller by Elia Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy as Biff, and Cameron Mitchell as Happy. The play was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Award for Best Author, the New York Drama Circle Critics' Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. The play was performed 742 times. In 1949, Miller exchanged letters with Eugene O'Neill regarding Miller's production of "All My Sons". O'Neill had sent Miller a congratulatory telegram; in response, he wrote a letter that