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Did Lisa Wu-HartWell give Tyler Perry his big break?


Staff Writer


2009-09-01


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You may know the name Tyler Perry before you know the name Lisa Wu-Hartwell. If you know Tyler Perry, you know one of America's historical figures that took the chitlin circuit to another level. Tyler Perry did so well on the chitlin circuit that no one refers to African American based plays with that name anymore.

You may ask how does a women that got sued by Keith Sweat for 150k come into play and best known as a cast member on Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo. Well, Hartwell is a person of many talents. When she was younger, she was almost signed to a record deal but ,we all heard that story over and over again. Although the rap career did not take off, Hartwell some how ended up writing plays and movies. Here are some of Hartwell's works "Change Is Gonna Come" and "The Industry" a Upon show , and a movie called "Black Ball".

Although I never heard of or seen the tv show titled the "The Industry", Keith Sweat, the old school singer, claims that he gave Hartwell a loan for 150k to make the move "Black Ball" read more . He has not been paid back yet. Hartwell other websites to all those other business are down or in a dead pool for now.

Now back to Tyler Perry, Hartwell allowed Perry to direct a few of never heard of stage plays and , this is a little known black history story. If it were not Lisa Wu Hartwell, Tyler Perry would still be at the Piggly Wiggly.