Larry Knight

Poet, writer, actor, and teacher Larry Knight is also an English Literature and Mass Communications graduate of Southern University. In 2004, Knight co-wrote and appeared in the play GRIOT: He Who Speaks the Sweet Word. Knight appeared at Players by the Sea in JULIUS X as Brutus, a role that garnered him the Best Actor Pelican award; he also appeared as Othello; Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice; and in Gem of the Ocean as Caesar Wilkes. In 2013, Knight starred as John Williamson in Glengarry Glenn Ross. He appeared at Theatre Jacksonville in A Midsummer’s Night Dream as Theseus and Prince Escalus in Romeo and Juliet. In 2011, he was seen in two staged readings on Theatre Jacksonville’s stage; he was John Coffey in John Coffey Refuses to Save the World and Grant Wiggins in A Lesson Before Dying. Knight has taught both English Literature and Journalism at Stanton College Preparatory School in Jacksonville, Florida since 1998.