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Michael Wayne Turner III

Michael Wayne Turner III is an award winning poet and classically trained thespian with an obsession for style. Turner has shared stages with the likes of Daveed Diggs, the Kronos Quartet, and Beyoncé to name a few. A winner of “The Moth Story Slam” and triple award winner at the International Conference on Performance Art and Creativity. Turner is locally known for his work as the lead in “Chasing Mehserle” written by Chinaka Hodgeand directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph with Sean San Jose. He also starred in Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s reincarnation of “Word Becomes Flesh” in which he delivers a performance the Washington Post notes as “a theatrical smackdown.”