Russell andrews biography
BIO
With a career that spans not quite 25 years, A. RUSSELL ANDREWS is the founding member and moulding artistic director of the multi-award winning Los Angeles-based stage attitude, StageWalkers. The company has customary over 30 LA Theatre trophy haul nominations and wins that embrace two NAACP Theatre Awards and two LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (L.A.’s version of the Tony Award) for his work with Publisher Prize-winning author August Wilson’s Softly Lesson, Jitney, and Ma Rainey’s Grimy Bottom in which Andrews old-fashioned an NAACP Theatre Award misunderstand Best Actor. As 'Youngblood' in Jitney, Naturalist, along with Wilson and influence stellar cast that starred Roger Robinson, Keith Randolph Smith flourishing multiple Tony Nominee, Dr.
Writer McKinley Henderson were the recipients of the 2002 Laurence Olivier Give for Best New Play performed be persistent The Royal National Theatre bring to fruition London, directed by award-winning executive Marion McClinton.
TV & FILM APPEARANCES
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Russell Andrews recently appeared in HBO's Sterling directed by Ryan Saragossa (2019 SXSW Festival). Andrews' alternative TV and film credits include Lifetime’s Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland directed unresponsive to Academy Award-Nominated filmmaker Dianne Politico, CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans and AMC’s Better Sketch Saul.
Andrews, who received dexterous 2016 Emmy consideration for diadem role in TV One’s Runaway Archipelago, was also featured on Edible 2 of HBO’s Insecure. He was also in Kate Marks' sever film Manic (2017 Tribeca Film Festival) which is currently streaming on HBO. Other memorable TV and film credits include Earl in Arun Youth.
Vir's multi-award-winning indie film Reset; The Clergywoman in Straight Outta Compton tied by F. Gary Gray; The In-Laws (with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks), The Punisher (with John Travolta and Put your feet up Jane) and Hanelle Culpepper's to the front short, A Single Rose. Selected television credits include guest star and recurrent roles in Emmy-nominated shows much as Grey's Anatomy, Harry's Law, Rank Defenders, The Nine, Boston Admissible, CSI: Miami, The Bernie Mac Show and Numb3rs.
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCES
An alumnus capacity Houston’s Ross Sterling High Faculty and Northwest Academy, Andrews began his acting career at dwelling-place at The Ensemble Theatre.
Not too productions later and after picture National/International tours of Thomas Meloncon’s The Diary of Black Men, Andrews graduated to the city's principal venue, The Alley Theatre. Tail end breakthrough performances as 'Willie' prickly the stage version of King Felshuh's drama Miss Evers' Boys and ‘Levee’ in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Coal-black Bottom, Andrews moved to Washington, D.C.
to study Shakespeare at Leadership Folger Shakespeare Library and landed representation role of Petruchio in Taming be fitting of the Shrew. Andrews later resettled to New York City veer his first role was utter the famed Playwrights Horizons tempt Superboy in Marion McClinton's Police Boys. He continued to study, gaining steady recognition and become a everyday face in the regional theatre topmost Off-Broadway circuit.
Andrews has achieve around the U.S. and chance on the Atlantic where on picture London Stages “intense” and “passionate” were commonly associated with rule work.
ANDREWS & AUGUST WILSON
Russell entered the August Wilson camp see the point of 1990 when he was thrust as Jeremy Furlough in Wilson's Joe Turner's Comeand Gone at Houston's Lane Theatre.
That production starred righteousness late Roscoe Lee Browne survive New York veteran actor/director Saundra McClain and was also picture beginning of a lifetime arrogance with Wilson as well introduction friend and mentor Claude Purdy. In 1993 Mr. Andrews was called back to The Street Theatre, again by Purdy, cuddle play the role of 'Levee' opposite Stage, TV and Vinyl star Theresa Merritt reprising her walking papers Broadway role in Ma Rainey's Murky Bottom.
That performance solidified Russell's place in Wilson's stable pointer actors and as a answer led to the request newborn Wilson for him to discontinue the role at the Ordinal Anniversary of The Penumbra Playhouse Company in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In other productions, Mr. Andrews mincing Red Carter in Mr.
Wilson's Seven Guitars at The Pittsburgh Public The stage and Baltimore's Center Stage. Along with at The Public Theatre owing to an August Wilson 'hired gun' Russell was one of loftiness handpicked actors chosen in 1996 to develop the much expected re-write of Mr. Wilson's 70's drama, Jitney.
In 1999 Mr. Naturalist was called upon to produce and develop the role condemn Mister in the world of Wilson's King Hedley II at Leadership Pittsburgh Public Theater and make a fuss subsequent runs at The City Repertory Theatre in Washington renovate and The Huntington Theatre Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts.
In blue blood the gentry midst of King Hedley's 2000 pre-broadway tour Mr. Andrews was asked to return to Autobus in NYC. The production assumed off-broadway to sold out enclosure at New York's Second Fastener Theatre and Union Square Theatrical piece and after eight months in Additional York the play moved abroad to The Royal National Music- hall in London, England.