Guyanese-American actress Dawnn Lewis returns to Broadway

Dawnn Lewis

By Bevan Springer

Guyanese-American actress and Grammy Award-winning singer, Dawnn Lewis, known for her character Jaleesa Vinson in the ’90s sitcom “A Different World,” has returned to Broadway as Zelma Bullock (Tina Turner’s mother) in “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.” 

Lewis, who grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn, is upbeat about her return to Broadway, while she strengthens her nonprofit organization, A New Day Foundation, which is focused on providing financial and programmatic support to empower and educate underserved youth across the country and abroad.