The |Griot| Project is pleased to announce the addition of Louis Robert Thompson to our creative team for the 2019-2020 season!
Louis Robert Thompson is a stage and screen actor who has worked alongside actors such as Jon Voigt, James Caan, and Jesse Eisenberg. Louis found the opportunity to hone his skill as a screen actor and director collaborating with a cast of his peers on his passion project, his first independent, medium-length, film – Manic.
Thompson's breakout role came along when he had the chance to play the amorous, adulterous Carl in Dirty Sexy Derby Play for the Louisville Repertory Company. He followed up with another Louisville Repertory Company role in the play The Food Chain, in which he played the self absorbed model Serge. He extended his career to classical theater with a starring role as Jason in the Savage Rose Classical Theater production of the Greek play Medea.
Thompson joins The |Griot|Project this season to direct Cheryl L. West’s Before It Hits Home a family drama about of sexual identity, acceptance, love, music and impact of the AIDS crisis on the Black community.
Before It Hits Home will open Friday, November 22, 2019 and will be produced by William Mack III