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Who's who in the cast
of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Westside Arts), The Harvesting, the revival of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead directed by John Malkovich (Circle Rep), Home with the Negro Ensemble Company, and For Colored Girls... (first national - NYSF). Additional theatre credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Philadelphia Drama Guild), The Dream Team (Goodspeed Opera House) and a festival of Sam Shepard plays (Syracuse Stage). Ms. Merkerson can be seen regularly as Reba The Mail Lady on "Peewee's Playhouse". Her other television credits include pilots of "Elysian Fields" (CBS), "Equal Justice" (ABC) and appearances on "Beverly Hills Buntz" and "The Cosby Show." Her film credits include Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have it, Loose Cannons with Gene Hackman and the upcoming films Navy Seal and Jacob's Ladder. The Piano Lesson marks Ms. Markerson's Broadway debut.
LOU MYERS (Wining Boy), who plays Mr. Gains on "A Different World" on NBC-TV, created the role of Wining Boy. He has performed in three of August Wilson's plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences. He made his Broadway debut in the Negro Ensemble Company's production of The First Breeze of Summer. Off-Broadway, his performance in Do Lord Remember Me? and winning the coveted Audelco Award introduced him as a serious stage actor. He has made the rounds of regional theatre: the Huntington in Boston; GeVa in New York; Asolo in Florida; Old Globe in San Diego; Yale Repertory in Connecticut; Virginia Stage in Virginia; and the Goodman in Chicago. He has toured Japan, China, Africa and more than 75 U.S. college campuses with this one-man stage performance. He has written four historical dramas presented by museums across the country. He likes to remember the tough but exiting days as teacher-director of the Tskaka Ensemble which performed Greek tragedies and Shakespearean dramas in an African setting at universities and performing arts centers nationwide.
AUGUST WILSON (Playwright), winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fences, is also the author of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, all of which were developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference and given theirs premieres at Yale Repertory Theatre. Ma Rainey opened on Broadway in October 1984 to critical acclaim and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Fences opened on Broadway in October 1987 to critical acclaim and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Award, as well as a Tony Award for best play and a Tony Award for Lloyd Richards as best director. Following its Yale Rep premiere, Joe Turner was produced by Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, the Seattle 
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