Levy Lee Simon

Multiple award winning writer, actor, director, and producer, Levy Lee Simon is
originally from Harlem USA, and a graduate of the University of Iowa Playwright’s
Workshop, MFA. His award winning plays include: For the Love of Freedom – the trilogy,
(Two NAACP Nominations for Best Playwright and an Ovation Nomination for Best Full
Length Play,) The Bow Wow Club, (Lorraine Hansberry Award – Best Full Length Play –
National Black Theatre Festival selection) Same Train,(OOBR Award – Best Play) Smell the
Power, (New Voices Playwriting Award- Best Play,) and The Guest at Central Park West.
(Audelco Award – Best Playwright and Dramatic Production of the Year.) Other plays
include: The Stuttering Preacher, Caseload, God the Crackhouse and the Devil, The Last
Revolutionary, The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel, and, Gentrified – Metaphor of the Drums. His
directing credits include; With a Little Help – It’s John Belushi by Jack Zullo,(Theatre 80
NYC,) The Bow Wow Club, Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman, Javon Johnson’s Breathe, and
Leftovers by Josh Wilder at the GPTC. LL has optioned scripts to studios in Hollywood
and New York. His first feature film, The Last Revolutionary, premiered at the Pan
African Film Festival 2017, and can now be seen on Amazon.com. Levy Lee, as he
prefers to be called, is a proud artist and thespian always seeking to create work that
entertains while inspiring and motivating change.

Role with GPTC: Responder, Instructor, PlayLab Director