LOU BELLAMY (Producer & Director) is Founder and Artistic Director of Penumbra Theatre Company.
 Lou graduated
with a BA from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and received his MA
from the University of Minnesota. He has been a member of the
University of Minnesota’s faculty for 28 years and is currently
appointed to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of
Theatre and Dance. Among the awards he has received for excellence in
arts and education are the W. Harry Davis Foundation Award for
Leadership in Afro-centric Education, the Links Award in Recognition of
Excellence in Black Theatre, and a doctorate from Hamline University.
Some of Bellamy’s directing credits include: Reflections of Black
Nativity, Dinah Was, On the Open Road, King Hedley II, Someplace Soft
to Fall, A Lovesong for Miss Lydia, Louie & Ophelia, Riffs, Black
Eagles, The Darker Face of the Earth, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Seven
Guitars, Big White Fog, Two Trains Running, Portrait of the Artist as a
Soul Man Dead, Coming the Hurricane, Three Ways Home, Buffalo Hair,
King of Coons, The Mighty Gents, Little Tommy Parker’s Celebrated
Colored Minstrel Show, The African American Company Presents Richard
III, Harvest the Forest, Shorteyes, and Soul Alley. His acting credits
include lead roles in Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano
Lesson, Waiting in Vain, and Talking Bones.
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