Jerome Preston Bates is an American theater, film and television actor, director and playwright. Bates was born in

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. The family moved to the

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area when he was six but returned to

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when Bates began high school.

Theater credits

Broadway

August Wilson's ''Jitney,'' Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Manhattan Theater Club, Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), ''

Stick Fly ''Stick Fly'' is a 2006 play written by Lydia Diamond. It opened on Broadway on December 8, 2011 and closed on February 26, 2012. Synopsis The show takes place at the LeVay Home, in Edgartown, as it is a point of contention where the family resi ...

'', Directed by Kenny Leon (Lyceum Theatre); August Wilson's ''Seven Guitars'', Directed by Lloyd Richards (Walter Kerr Theatre).

Off-Broadway

Beckett Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, The Public Theater, Circle Repertory Company, The Negro Ensemble Company, New Federal Theatre. Regional: Floyd Barton in Seven Guitars opposite Viola Davis (world premiere, Goodman Theatre); Fences (Denver Center Theatre Company); King Lear (Folger Theatre); Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Centerstage, Hartford Stage, Peoples’ Light & Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Drama Guild. Jerome Preston Bates has played

Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...

and

Joe Glaser Joseph G. Glaser (December 17, 1896 – June 6, 1969) was an artist manager known for his involvement in the careers of jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Biography Glaser was the son of a Chicago family of Russian Jewi ...

in the one-person play "''

Satchmo at the Waldorf ''Satchmo at the Waldorf'' is a one-act, one-person play written by Terry Teachout. It is Teachout's first play and it is about the famous jazz trumpeter and performer Louis Armstrong. According to the printed playbill by Dramatists Play Services ...

''" by

Terry Teachout Terrance Alan Teachout (February 6, 1956 – January 13, 2022) was an American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist. He was the drama critic of ''The Wall Street Journal'', the critic-at-large of ''Commentary'' ...

. During the play the impersonation of

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of music ...

takes place.

TV/Film

Oz, All My Children, Law & Order, Third Watch, Lights Out, NYPD Blue, New York Undercover, Shaft 2000, Musical Chairs, It Runs in the Family, The Out-of-Towners, Tio Papi, Peeples, Romeo and Juliet in Harlem.

Directing

The entire August Wilson Century Cycle (Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, GA), Oedipus Rex (Times Square Arts Center).

Awards

Six Audelco Awards, including Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Carter G. Woodson Award. Authorship: Electric 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 ''Law & Order'' is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment, launching the '' Law & Order'' franchise. ''Law & Order'' aired its entire run on NBC, premiering on ...

'' shows and he also played a corrections officer on the HBO series '' Oz''. On November 5, 2007, Bates took over the role of Derek Frye on the

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soap opera, ''

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'', the third actor to play that character.

External links

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