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Lee Summers Writer/Composer/Producer/Director/Performer Lee Summers is recipient of the 2010 Bistro Award for “Most Outstanding Entertainer” for his one-man show, Winds of Change for which he was writer and star. TV & Film credits include: appearing on the 2011 season of the Emmy nominated HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, New York Undercover and in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. On Broadway, Summers appeared in the original production of Dreamgirls – years later he was a featured vocalist at New York’s Motown Café. Summers would become the only actor from the 1981 production of Dreamgirls to reprise his same role in the 2001 20th year reunion production and is featured on the Dreamgirls 20th Anniversary CD along with Heather Headley, Audra McDonald, Lillias White and Billy Porter.

Writing/Composing/Producing credits include, Yo’ Alice, conceived by Maurice Hines, The Funkentine Rapture (NAMT 2005), Ella Fitzgerald; First Lady Of Song (Crossroads 2004) and If These Shoes (NPT Our Voices Award Winner). Summers conceived, co-authored, composed original songs and produced the 2004 Off-Broadway Musical, From My Hometown (developmental co-production with AMAS garnering Eight AUDELCO Award Nominations) slated for the Triad Theatre in 2011 [See Promo]. In 2011/2012 From My Hometown will be produced for the third time at The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, also at The Madison Theatre and the Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan. Summers created the acclaimed, Just A Piano Concert Series. Summers has directed shows in venues ranging from New York’s Urban Stages, AMAS Musical Theatre, New World Stages, Flushing Town Hall, The Triad Theatre, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, CA, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and many more. Summers recently premiered his latest one-man tribute to Nat “King” Cole, Cole: Revisited at the Triad. A recipient of a Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Commendation Award for his work in Musical Theatre, Summers is an alum of Tennessee State University in his hometown of Nashville.