Lee Palmer

Lee makes his Detroit Public Theatre debut. A veteran actor whose career has taken him all over the map, Lee recently appeared as the Narrator in Passing Strange at Salt Lake Acting Company and is thrilled to revisit this compelling piece. Other select credits include Jitney (Congo Square Theatre—Jeff Award nomination, Black Excellence Award winner); The Full Monty, Newsies, Once on this Island (Skylight Music Theatre); Miss You Like Hell (TheatreSquared); The Whipping Man (Fulton Theatre); A Murder is Announced, Ghost The Musical (Peninsula Players); Julius Caesar, Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull (Michigan Shakespeare Festival); Two Trains Running (Goodman Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird, Williams & Walker, Psychedelic Sundae, Benito Cereno (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Race, microcrisis, Perfect Mendacity, The Exonerated (Next Act Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and Five Guys Named Moe (Tour and Mill Mountain Theatre). Primetime television: Empire (FOX) and Chicago Fire (NBC). Feature films: Small Town Wisconsin, Olympia, and Spike Lee’s CHI-RAQ. Proud member of Actors' Equity and SAG-AFTRA.