Acting
Byron Bowers
Born 1978-11-24 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Byron Bowers is an American comedian, writer, and actor. Byron has appeared on The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim, Comedy Central's Adam DeVine's House Party, and on the reboot of BET's Comic View. He made his late-night debut on The Pete Holmes Show, followed by an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He appeared in MTV's Guy Code and in the History Channel comedy, The Crossroads of History. He is currently appearing in Lena Waithe's Showtime series drama The Chi as Meldrick. He also played the roommate of Lucas Hedges’ character in the film Honey Boy, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, he performed at the Hollywood Bowl on a bill with Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and George Clinton as part of the Brainfeeder festival. He appeared in the horror film KUSO. His TV credits include season 3 of The Meltdown on Comedy Central, Funny as Hell in Montreal for HBO Canada, and Flop House for Viceland. [8] His festival performances include Oddball Comedy Fest, SXSW, Life is Beautiful, Austin City Limits, RIOT, SF Sketchfest, and Blue Whale Comedy Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bowers grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue comedy in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Byron Bowers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
6.4A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
No Sudden Move
2021
6.2A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
Kimi
2022
7.0The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Honey Boy
2019
6.1Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.
Concrete Cowboy
2020
1.0Determined to rehab his public image, a boxer joins the Big Bruh / Lil Sis program and meets his match.
Big Bruh
2023
5.4Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.
Kuso
2017
NRA documentary detailing funny, outrageous, positive stories about Andy Dick. Interviews range from club bouncers to celebrities. This Is Your Life meets Comedy Central Roast.
Everybody Has an Andy Dick Story
2017
8.0After a life-altering revelation while tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, comedian Byron Bowers stumbles straight from the desert into the Decatur Boxing Club, to deliver an intimate set in his hometown Atlanta. Byron talks about his long journey to his first comedy special, the stigma of mental health, and how tripping on mushrooms made him understand his schizophrenic father and altered the way he feels about his Blackness.
Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a
2022
4.6It's the Fourth of July in Los Angeles, and Jamie, a broke illustrator who is behind on his rent, tries to throw a cookout while his overbearing roommate is out of town, but everything seems to go wrong.
The 4th
2016