I've been doing thangs. Teaching, taking every gig I can in theater, and performing and applying, yet being denied. So I press forward and do mo' thangs. I say yes to the smile of exhaustion because my future and dreams are worth it. I'm still searching for a publishing house that can become home to my writing, a theater that welcomes the truth of my shows, and a studio that hold the in between.

Excerpts from Mayers’ Performance Piece, My Culture Has Become An Industry.

Lester Eugene Mayers is a Brooklyn native, a Department of Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz, and an MFA graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Mayers is a director, writer, performance artist, dramaturg, choreographer, and professor. He is a current professor at Ramapo College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the 2023 inaugural artist in residence at Ramapo College. In addition, Mayers is directing the main stage production of Hooded or Being Black For Dummies by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm at SUNY New Paltz.

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