LOU MYERS The Color Purple marked Lou's fourth Broadway appearance. He is best known as the restaurant owner on TV's "A Different World." He won the NAACP Best Actor Award and an AUDELCO Award for August Wilson's King Hedley II. Mr. Myers first appeared onstage in New York with the Negro Ensemble Company's production of The First Breeze of Summer and played on Broadway in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson. His cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, New York as well as in Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel. TV: "NYPD Blue," "Eve," "ER," "The Cosby Show," "Jag," "Touched by an Angel" and many more. Movies: The Fighting Temptations, "Lakawanna Blues," The Wedding Planner, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Bulworth, Friday After Next, Passions of Darkly Noon, Cobb, Tin Cup, Volcano, The Stand-In, All About You, Goodbye Lover, Wind Rewind. Visit him at www.loumyers.com.

Previously seen in Show Theatre Role Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Broadhurst Theatre Reverend Tooker

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