Chesapeake, WV native Lou Myers is currently working with Debbie Allen and Robin Givens on a new sitcom entitled "MY PARENTS, MY SISTER AND ME." He can also be seen performing his one man cabaret show "Just a little bit of Somethin'" at Windows Over Harlem in New York city. He recently completed his fifth appearance on Broadway in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” African American Style. “Oprah Winfrey’s The Color Purple” marked Lou Myers fourth Broadway appearance. He was the only performer in the play the audience recognized and applauded every time he appeared on stage and that was better than having his name in print. They all knew him from his work through the years. Lou is best known as the irascible restaurant owner “Mr. Gaines” on the, hit Television series “A Different World”.
“King Hedley II” represented Lou Myers’ second appearance in this critically celebrated August Wilson play. He won the NAACP “Best Actor” Award and off-Broadway Audelco “Best Actor” Award for his role of Stool Pigeon in “King Hedley II.” He was recently awarded the coveted “Living Legend Award” from the National Black Theatre Festival. Mr. Myers first appeared on Broadway with the Negro Ensemble Company’s production of “The First Breeze of Summer,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and the Lovable, suit selling, gambling, piano playing, uncle in August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize Play, “The Piano Lesson.” He previously won the off-Broadway Audelco “Best Actor” Award for the tap dancing bodyguard in “Fat Tuesday.” Mr. Myers also preformed at local New York concert halls, cabarets, night clubs, colleges and universities, Off-Broadway, American Place production of “Do Lord Remember me and a long list of Regional Theatres. He wrote, produced and co-directed off Broadway his critically acclaimed one man show “Just a Little Bit Something” and his historical play “Foot Steps from Before.”
He was founder and director of the “Tshaka Ensemble Players,” who for eight years, during Black History month, continually performed the historical and educational play “Foot Steps From Before” which was written and produced by Mr. Myers. They also toured in the acclaimed play, “Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” set in AFRICA … He served as the griot and dancer for several dance companies such as the Dinizula Dancers, Drummers and Singers. He was a regular feature at the New York Museum of Natural History for (8) years. He reads, writes and speaks French, German, Spanish and some African Dialects… Mr. Myers received his Masters and is currently a candidate for the PhD. in Comparative Literature.
Mr. Myers TV credits include: NYPD Blue, EVE, E.R., The Cosby Show, Touched By An Angel, Jag, and The Jamie Fox Show to name a few… His movie credits include: The Fighting Temptations, Lakawanna Blues (HBO) Wedding Planner, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Bullworth, Friday After Next, Passions of Darkly Noon (Showtime), Cobb. Tin Cup, Volcano, Everything’s Jake, The Stand In, All About You and GoodbyeLover.
Mr. Myers has come a long way from the mountains of West Virginia. In 2005, the Appalachian Education Initiative listed Myers as one of fifty "Outstanding Creative Artists" from the State of West Virginia and featured him in their coffee table book Art & Soul. He began singing Jazz and Blues with the touring company of “Negro Music in Vogue.” His Cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, as well as Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel.. Mr. Myers is Chairman and Chief Enlightenment Officer for Global Business Incubation (501c3) and Chairman of the Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre. Mr. Myers is a futurist, historian, mentor, lecturer, trainer and has toured Colleges, Universities, and many other venues performing, storytelling our ancestral history and speaking on panels with professors and business experts around the world about new trends in business and urban community economic development.
Chesapeake, WV native Lou Myers is currently working with Debbie Allen and Robin Givens on a new sitcom entitled "MY PARENTS, MY SISTER AND ME." He can also be seen performing his one man cabaret show "Just a little bit of Somethin'" at Windows Over Harlem in New York city. He recently completed his fifth appearance on Broadway in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” African American Style. “Oprah Winfrey’s The Color Purple” marked Lou Myers fourth Broadway appearance. He was the only performer in the play the audience recognized and applauded every time he appeared on stage and that was better than having his name in print. They all knew him from his work through the years. Lou is best known as the irascible restaurant owner “Mr. Gaines” on the, hit Television series “A Different World”.
“King Hedley II” represented Lou Myers’ second appearance in this critically celebrated August Wilson play. He won the NAACP “Best Actor” Award and off-Broadway Audelco “Best Actor” Award for his role of Stool Pigeon in “King Hedley II.” He was recently awarded the coveted “Living Legend Award” from the National Black Theatre Festival. Mr. Myers first appeared on Broadway with the Negro Ensemble Company’s production of “The First Breeze of Summer,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and the Lovable, suit selling, gambling, piano playing, uncle in August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize Play, “The Piano Lesson.” He previously won the off-Broadway Audelco “Best Actor” Award for the tap dancing bodyguard in “Fat Tuesday.” Mr. Myers also preformed at local New York concert halls, cabarets, night clubs, colleges and universities, Off-Broadway, American Place production of “Do Lord Remember me and a long list of Regional Theatres. He wrote, produced and co-directed off Broadway his critically acclaimed one man show “Just a Little Bit Something” and his historical play “Foot Steps from Before.”
He was founder and director of the “Tshaka Ensemble Players,” who for eight years, during Black History month, continually performed the historical and educational play “Foot Steps From Before” which was written and produced by Mr. Myers. They also toured in the acclaimed play, “Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,” set in AFRICA … He served as the griot and dancer for several dance companies such as the Dinizula Dancers, Drummers and Singers. He was a regular feature at the New York Museum of Natural History for (8) years. He reads, writes and speaks French, German, Spanish and some African Dialects… Mr. Myers received his Masters and is currently a candidate for the PhD. in Comparative Literature.
Mr. Myers TV credits include: NYPD Blue, EVE, E.R., The Cosby Show, Touched By An Angel, Jag, and The Jamie Fox Show to name a few… His movie credits include: The Fighting Temptations, Lakawanna Blues (HBO) Wedding Planner, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Bullworth, Friday After Next, Passions of Darkly Noon (Showtime), Cobb. Tin Cup, Volcano, Everything’s Jake, The Stand In, All About You and GoodbyeLover.
Mr. Myers has come a long way from the mountains of West Virginia. In 2005, the Appalachian Education Initiative listed Myers as one of fifty "Outstanding Creative Artists" from the State of West Virginia and featured him in their coffee table book Art & Soul. He began singing Jazz and Blues with the touring company of “Negro Music in Vogue.” His Cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, as well as Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel.. Mr. Myers is Chairman and Chief Enlightenment Officer for Global Business Incubation (501c3) and Chairman of the Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre. Mr. Myers is a futurist, historian, mentor, lecturer, trainer and has toured Colleges, Universities, and many other venues performing, storytelling our ancestral history and speaking on panels with professors and business experts around the world about new trends in business and urban community economic development.