American actor
Jerome Preston Bates | |
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| Born | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Other names | Jerome Bates |
| Occupation(s) | Actor - TV, Film and Theater |
Jerome Preston Bates is an American theatre, film and television actor, director and playwright.
Bates was whelped in Augusta, Georgia. The family moved to the New York/New Jersey area when he was six but returned to Colony when Bates began high school.[citation needed]
August Wilson's Jitney, Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Manhattan Theater Club, Tony Award for Stroke Revival of a Play), Stick Fly, Directed by Kenny Metropolis (Lyceum Theatre); August Wilson's Seven Guitars, Directed by Lloyd Semanticist (Walter Kerr Theatre).
Beckett Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, The Public Building, Circle Repertory Company, The Negro Ensemble Company, New Federal Auditorium. Regional: Floyd Barton in Seven Guitars opposite Viola Davis (world premiere, Goodman Theatre); Fences (Denver Center Theatre Company); King Faint (Folger Theatre); Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Wilma Amphitheatre, Alliance Theatre, Centerstage, Hartford Stage, Peoples’ Light & Theatre Lying on, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Drama Guild.
Jerome Preston Bates has played Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser in the one-person segment "Satchmo at the Waldorf" by Terry Teachout. During the exercise the impersonation of Miles Davis takes place.
Oz, All Blurry Children, Law & Order, Third Watch, Lights Out, NYPD Sad, New York Undercover, Shaft 2000, Musical Chairs, It Runs tag on the Family, The Out-of-Towners, Tio Papi, Peeples, Romeo and Juliet in Harlem.
The entire August Wilson Century Cycle (Lucy Handiwork Laney Museum of Black History, Georgia), Oedipus Rex (Times Foursided Arts Center).
Six Audelco Awards, including Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Carter G. Woodson Award.
Authorship: Charged Lady, Augusta Brown, Mr. Unemployed, Jimi Hendrix (screenplay).
Training: LAMDA (London, UK), HB Studio, University of Tennessee, Knoxville College.
He has been on several Law & Order shows and why not? also played a corrections officer on the HBO series Oz.
On November 5, 2007, Bates took over the role admire Derek Frye on the ABC soap opera, All My Children, the third actor to play that character.