Lester Purry has performed in regional theatre across the country including a national tour as Othello in Othello, and as Augustus Newcastle in The Darker Face of the Earth and Lester Mason in The Big White Fog, all with The Guthrie Theatre.
At Penumbra Theatre, Purry has played the roles of Cory in Fences, Clay in Dutchman, Hambone is Two Trains Running, Lymon in The Piano Lesson, Hedley in King Hedley II, and Booster in Jitney, to name a few. At Baltimore Center Stage Purry was Marvell Thunder in Thunder Knocking on the Door, as well as King of the Hill in You Can Stop On a Dime. He played Lymon the The Piano Lesson, Scarus in Antony and Cleopatra, and Mordred in Camelot at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Purry performed at Philadelphia Theatre Company as Floyd Barton in Seven Guitars, Arizona Theatre Company as Wolf in Two Trains Running, and as Troy Maxson in Fences at Portland Playhouse, Palm Beach Dramaworks and Los Angeles Performing Arts Center.