Billy Porter is a Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning actor, singer, director, composer. As a recording artist, Porter’s solo albums include his first CD, Untitled, on A&M records and his sophomore album, At the Corner of Broadway + Soul - LIVE. Billy’s Back on Broadway, was released in 2014. Porter’s newest album, The Soul of Richard Rodgers, is released on Sony Masterworks.

Porter is back starring as “Lola” in the smash hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, for which he won the 2013 Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. Other Broadway acting credits include the Tony nominated Broadway musical, Shuffle Along, Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Grease (all original cast), Smokey Joe’s Café and Dreamgirls (20th Anniversary Broadway Concert and LA Ovation Award). Off Broadway and regional credits include Angels in America (Signature Theater), Romance In Hard Times, The Merchant of Venice, House of Lear and Radiant Baby (The New York Shakespeare Festival), Birdie Blue (Second Stage), & Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World (original cast). His one-man show, Ghetto Superstar: The Man That I Am, debuted at The Public Theater in NYC in conjunction with City Theatre of Pittsburgh and was nominated for a 2005 GLAAD Media Award.

Porter’s film and television credits include Baz Luhrman’s "The Get Down," "The Humbling" co-starring Al Pacino & Greta Gerwig, Sundance Film Festival features "The Broken Hearts Club" (Sony Pictures) and "Intern, Noel" (with Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams), "Shake Rattle & Roll" as Little Richard (CBS mini-series), "Law & Order: SVU" and "The Big C."  He recently finished filming the Ryan Murphy pilot "Pose."