Lemon Andersen presents County of KINGS

 County of Kings
A Stage Memoir by Lemon Andersen

Tony-Award winning Actor/Writer, Poet, and Brooklynite Lemon Andersen is bringing his one-man play "County of KINGS" to El Museo Del Barrio this Sunday (12/11) for One Night Only! Based off Lemon's life and produced by another Brooklynite Spike Lee, this is a play that you do not want to miss. Spread love it's the Brooklyn way!

Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings gives a tough, yet poignant biographical account of a good
kid growing up in an unforgiving environment. Lemon, whose parents met at a methadone clinic
and passed away from AIDS, served two prison sentences before he was 21 and won a Tony
before he turned 30. His on-stage memoir touches on young love, the birth of hip-hop, slinging
crack, ballet, stealing car parts, prison, and poetry as he takes the audience on an astonishing
and surprising one-man journey toward self-discovery. Weaving hard-edged drama with urban
poetry, the Brooklyn born and bred performer tells his coming-of-age story with profound
honesty, compassion and humor. A true story of finding passion in the arts and finding one’s
way, Lemon paints a vivid portrait of his own life and the lives of countless other Brooklynites
during the 1980s and 1990s.

WHAT: Special Holiday Performance, One Night Only, of County of Kings
WHO: Lemon Andersen
WHEN: 6pm Sunday, December 11
WHERE: El Museo Del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue, New York City, NY 10029-4496

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lemon Andersen has been featured as a regular on HBO’s “Def
Poetry” presented by Russell Simmons and was also an original cast member and writer of
Russell Simmons’ Tony Award winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. On screen Lemon has
appeared opposite Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s Inside Man and The Soloist starring
Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.

Website: countyofkingstheplay.com
Twitter: @LemonAndersen