Lou Bellamy (Director & Producer)
is the founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre.
Under his leadership, Penumbra has produced 23 world premieres,
including August Wilson’s first professional production,
and is proud to have produced more of Mr. Wilson’s plays than
any theater in the world. Bellamy is an OBIE Award-winning director,
an accomplished actor, and sought-after scholar.
He has been a member
of the University of Minnesota’s faculty for 32 years and is currently
appointed to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of
Theatre and Dance. Recent directing credits include Penumbra’s productions
of A Raisin in the Sun and Gem of the Ocean presented at the Guthrie Theater,
Fences and The Piano Lesson at Penumbra, Two Trains Running at the
Signature Theatre in New York, Jitney at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
and Arizona Theatre Company, and the staged reading of Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom at the Kennedy Center.
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