For a decade, his performances have rocked iconic venues including San Francisco’s Theatre On The Square, Gammage Performing Arts Center in Arizona, Charleston’s Spoleto Festival, New Haven’s Arts & Ideas Festival, the Chicago Theatre and the Kodak Theatre in L.A. Spike Lee produced Andersen’s memoir County of Kings at The Public, which was published in 2010, and awarded the New York Book Festival’s Grand Prize. Andersen won a Tony Award in 2003 for Def Poetry Jam, produced by Russell Simmons and broadcast on HBO for six seasons. He trained with The Public’s Shakespeare Lab and his work has received support from the Sundance Institute. As an author, he has publish a book of new poems titled Straightrazor and his writing was excerpted by actor/activist Hill Harper inLetters To An Incarcerated Brother.

Catch Incubate + Innovate: Harvest Diverse Talent on Friday, June 26, 2015 at 4:30 pm with Lemon Andersen.