Lee Summers

Birth Name: Jr. Leon Summers

Lee Summers is creator of the Off-Broadway R&B hit, From My Hometown, which, garnered eight, 2003, Audelco nominations, including "Best Musical Production" at the Kirk Theater, then tran ...Show More

Lee Summers is creator of the Off-Broadway R&B hit, From My Hometown, which, garnered eight, 2003, Audelco nominations, including "Best Musical Production" at the Kirk Theater, then transferred to the Gramercy Theatre in 2004, with Summers as Producer. Conceived, co-written and featuring original songs by Summers, Hometown's other regional productions include being twice produced at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, then Kansas City's American Heartland Theatre in 2005 and the Phoenix Theater in Indianapolis in 2006. This three-man musical will run at the Downstairs Cabaret in Rochester, New York in 2007, transferring to a limited engagement at the World Famous Apollo Theater, followed by a Japanese tour.The late, great, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers starred in Summers' and Kevin Ramsey's, If These Shoes Could Talk (Winner 1996 "Our Voices" Award from The New Professional Theatre, Produced by the Milwaukee and Arkansas Repertory Theaters).Summers is also author, co-composer (With Timothy Graphenreed) of the soulful adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland," Yo' Alice (NY Work shop produced by Radio City Entertainment and in 2006, was presented in a reading at New York's Triad Theatre, featuring an all star cast).Summers' The Funkentine Rapture was work shopped at Theatreworks in Palo Alto, California and selected for presentation in the 2005 National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival at Dodgers Stages, directed by Summers and starring Billy Porter.Summers is also author of Ella Fitzgrald, First Lady Of Song, which premiered at the Crossroads Theater in December 2004, starring Freda Payne as "Ella."As a performer, Summers is the only actor to have performed in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, then to reprise his same role in The Dreamgirls 20th Anniversary (Featured on the CD with Lillias White, Heather Headley and Audra McDonald), Little Ham, Five Guys Named Moe, Hair and Porgy And Bess. Film and TV credits include: The Presidents, Malcolm X, New York Undercover, Law And Order and Head Of State. Summers, a recipient of a 2003 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Commendation Award for his work in musical theatre, is an alumnus of Tennessee State University in his hometown of Nashville Tennessee. Hide