Sammie Wayne

Actor. Director. Coach. Lighting Designer.

6X AWARD WINNER

Sammie Wayne, IV is an actor, director, acting/dialogue coach, and lighting designer.

He has won numerous theater awards for acting (Best Lead Actor & Best
Supporting Actor) and for lighting design.

Sammie has written and performed his one man show Lawd Ham Mercy On This
Nappy Headed Bastard. In this show Sammie takes the audience on a hilarious
journey of his life from childhood to manhood.

He was an acting/dialogue coach on the TV show Blackish and currently on the
TV show Grownish.

Sammie is in pre-production for a new musical called TAP IN, which he will direct.
Stay tuned for more to come!

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Sammie Wayne Poe was born in West Point, MS in 1962. Sammie has written and performed his autobiographical one man show entitled, “Lawd Ham Mercy On This Nappy Headed Bastard.”

Lawd Ham Mercy, is a ride from the early 1960s to now and just like anyone else’s life, this story is about birth and death. It’s about joy and pain,; its about happiness and hopelessness. This story reveals that as a human race, we have more in common than we do differences. Lawd Ham Mercy!

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