Robert LeVoyd-Wright
Portrait of actor Robert LeVoyd-Wright. Printed on front: "Robert LeVoyd-Wright." Label on back: "Robert LeVoyd Wright (director) is a graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Arts at Oakland University, and began his theatrical career at age six in a Detroit educational film. He has toured England with Restoration Arts Theater, playing in 'Julius Caesar' and 'Macbeth.' As a resident artist with the South Coast Repertory Theatre in California, his credits included the roles of Calaban in 'The tempest,' Lebeden in 'Subject to fits,' and 'Godspell,' which he also choreographed. With the L.A. Free Shakespeare Festival, he understudied the role of Jacques in 'As you like it' for Roscoe Lee Browne. In Detroit, Mr. Wright worked in local television, founded the Attic's Oldster's Mime Theatre, and as a member of the Civic Center Community Theatre, was seen in 'Around the world in eighty days,' 'The King and I,' and 'Here's love.' Meadowbrook theatregoers will remember him in 'The Fantasticks.' An Attic veteran, he first appeared at the Attic Theatre in 'Streamers,' and has also been cast in 'Midsummer night's dream,' 'Bloody Bess,' 'Macbeth,' and 'Zastrozzi.' He directed 'The sea horse,' and was most recently seen as Martin Luther King, Jr. in 'Kennedy at Colonus.' Mr. Wright lives in New York and has acted with the Capital Repertory Theatre, Performing Arts Repertory Theatre and Playwright's Horizons."
- Resource ID:
- hk001909
- Subject:
- LeVoyd-Wright, Robert
- African American actors
- African American theatrical producers and directors
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- E. Azalia Hackley Collection
- Location:
- Biography--Wright, Robert LeVoyd
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.