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Wendell Pierce (middle)
in a scene from Treme
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Wendell Pierce first caught my attention during his years playing worldly, cynical Baltimore police detective in
The Wire. The 48-year-old actor later appeared as a musician in
Treme, an HBO series about post-Katrina NOLA. Pierce's ambitions range beyond the small screen or even the second screen. His newest venture is authorship of a book about his hometown, Hurricane Katrina's physical and psychological impact on the Crescent City, and his own family's storm-driven odyssey.
According to Dianna Dilworth's piece in Galley Cat, Pierce's book's title is Hurricane Katrina in the Wind in the Reeds (sic): A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken. Meanwhile, Pierce will star in
a New Orleans stage production of Brothers From the Bottom, a play concerning post-Katrina issues that continue to roil the cradle of American jazz.
