Gavin Lawrence, a member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA. He is 5ft 6in, 145 lbs, dark brown eyes, black curly hair (when grown).

Most recently appearing in the Ordway Center for the Arts’  production of Blues In The Night,  Mr. Lawrence has worked as an actor, playwright, director, and composer at theaters around the country including the  Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Rep, Center Stage, William Redfield Theatre, Frank Silvera’s Writer’s Workshop, Guthrie Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Florida Studio Theatre, Source Theatre, LatiNegro Theatre, City Theatre, the Kresge Theatre at Carnegie Mellon,, Illusion Theatre , the Playwrights’ Center,  and the Pillsbury House Theatre.

Plays he has appeared in include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, five productions of Carlyle Brown’s Pure Confidence, Dream on Monkey Mountain, King Lear, Babes In Toyland, Two Trains Running, Fires In The Mirror, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, The Mighty Gents, Many Colors Make The Thunder King, Black No More, Boy, Color Blind, Birth Of The Boom, Spunk, Hunters Of The Soul, Two Tribes, Smile Orange, Working, Eden, The Mojo And The Sayso, The Last Minstrel Show, King Of Coons, Among Our Own, Slow Dance On The Killing Ground, Waiting In Vain, Everlasting Arms, Three Ways Home, Black Nativity, Buffalo Hair, The School For Scandal, The Lion In Winter, The Venetian Twins, Blood Wedding, Once In A Lifetime, and Julius Caesar.

Film and television work include Yonondio, Joe Somebody, Justice, Listen; Macbeth, Wine in the Wilderness, Newton’s Apple, and his independent film, The Promise, which was recently featured as part of the MNTV independent film series on PBS.

He is a recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Award for his play, Cut Flowers, produced by the Mixed Blood Theater, the Chicago Theatre Company, and the Noble Fool Theatre Company. Mr. Lawrence is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Howard University. Other plays produced include Salt Fish and Bakes, Outside of the City, and Immigrant Dreams at Mixed Blood; Bye, Bye Margarita at the Guthrie Lab; The Sound Of The Rain, Once Upon A Summer Time, B Is For Bully, and N 2 The Mirror at the Capri Theatre.

Published plays include Lilies In The Valley which received a workshop reading at the Children’s Theater Company, directed by Marion McClinton; Bye, Bye Margarita; Bill Of (W)Rights, and Point Of Review.