Lee Summers
Two-time AUDELCO Award winner for “Best Director of a Musical,” Lee Summers is an American theatre, television, and film actor, singer, librettist, composer, director, educator, and producer—best known for the Original Broadway Production of Dreamgirls and for creating and producing Off-Broadway’s From My Hometown.
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Lee Summers
Lee Summers’ “Ella, First Lady of Song,” conceived by Maurice Hines, and for which Lee Summers is director and librettist won the 2022 AUDELCO Award for “Best Musical” along with four other 2022 category awards.
Actor
Lee Summers has performed On and Off-Broadway, in major American repertory theatres, and in numerous roles for daytime and primetime TV including “Blue Bloods,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “New York Undercover,” “Law and Order” and in films such as “Malcolm X” directed by Spike Lee.
Producer
Lee Summers served as conceiver/co-writer/co-composer and lead producer for Off Broadway’s From My Hometown, which has been produced at over twelve regional theatres including the Madison Theatre at Molloy.
Director
Two-time AUDELCO Award winner for “Best Director of a Musical”: On Kentucky Avenue (2018) and Ella, First Lady of Song (2022), starring Freda Payne. His directing work spans regional theatre, concert performance, opera, and the development of new musicals.
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Lee Summers' Works
Lee Summers performs a wonderful and refreshingly unique and endearing tribute to my Dad!
(From My Hometown)…captures the spirit of Hitsville USA…
From My Hometown packs in more than 30 songs, including a tribute to the many “Three Man Groups” who paved the way for the breakthrough R&B, soul, funk and Motown acts.
