Larry Powell

BFA ACTING, 2008

Larry Powell is a true multi-hyphenate artist born and raised in South Central LA. As an Award-Winning Actor he has premiered fierce new plays like The Christians by Lucas Hnath, The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez, Father Comes Home From The Wars by Suzan Lori Parks, Brokeology by Nathan Louis Jackson, While I Yet Live by Billy Porter, Curve of Departure by Rachel Bonds, Seared by Theresa Rebeck, The Flower Thief by Pia Wilson, Bronzeville by Aaron Woolfolk and Tim Toyama, and many seasons at Obie Winning Fire This Time Festival. Most recently on screen he has enjoyed playing Rick James on MGM+’s upcoming Hotel Cocaine. As a Writer, he is the recipient of the 2021 IAMA Theatre Company Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Award, 2020 Cornelia Street Playwriting Award, and is an inaugural 2021 Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellow. His play “The Gaze”, a 2021 O’Neill NPC finalist, is also an award-winning digital series. “The Gaze Series” is a two-time 2021 Daytime EMMY Award Nominee, 2021 Webby Award Honoree and 2021 Micheaux Film Festival’s Best Comedic Digital Series Winner. He also Wrote/Directed/Starred In/Produced his debut experimental feature film project “Mother’s Milk: A Film Quilt” (2021 Seattle International Film Festival’s New American Cinema Special Jury Prize). He’s a Staff Writer for Four Seasons on hit, 2x EMMY Nominated TV Sitcom “The Ms. Pat Show” (BET+). As a Director, he recently directed Josh Wilder’s “Marty and The Hands That Could” for WACO Theater Center/Watts Village Theatre, and the 2023 Best Audio Drama Audie award winning audio recording of Dominique Morisseau’s “Pipeline” for L.A. Theatre Works. He was the Associate Producer/Casting Director for the 2023 Best Audiobook Nom Audie audio adaption of the graphic novel WAKE by Rebecca Hall. Director/Writer of “Strong Friend, Let Go” (2023 Micheaux Film Fest Dramatic Short – Best Writing winner). You may even catch his cameo in Calmatic’s “White Men Can’t Jump” opposite Jack Harlow. Proud Adjunct Lecturer at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, Graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama.

Upcoming… Powell’s Playground: The Passion Plays. #PowellHouseofArts