BIOGRAPHY
David Alan Grier
A.R.T. Debut. Broadway: The First (Jackie Robinson, Tony nomination, Theatre World Award), Dreamgirls, A Soldier's Play, Race (Tony nomination). Films: A Soldier’s Story, Robert Altman's Streamers (Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival), Dance Flick, and the upcoming We the Peeples. Television: In Living Color (1990-1994, Emmy Award); DAG (2000-2001), Life with Bonnie (2003, Image and Golden Satellite nomination); and he also appeared on Chocolate News. Grier has been named one of Comedy Central's "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time." In his first recently published book, BARACK LIKE ME: The Chocolate Covered Truth, he expounds on politics, culture and race while recounting his own life story in this edgy, timely, timeless, and hilarious memoir and look at all things Barack. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.