Elijah Chester Thomas

Elijah Chester Thomas is an Author, Screenwriter, Actor, and Spoken Word Poet from Buffalo, N.Y.. From teen aged runaway, to street performer, to making his name for himself in the competitive world of SLAM Poetry (under the pseudonym "Lazyrus"), to getting his work performed on the runway this year at Fashion Week in NYC, Elijah Chester Thomas has lived an adventurous life full of countless stories and experiences to share. Accolades he has collected include being part of 2 National SLAM poetry teams representing Buffalo New York, as well as becoming the first WNY Spoken Word Artist to make it to the Individual World Poetry Slam where he scored the highest accumulative scores of any performer in the world on the first night of the two day competition. Elijah Chester Thomas is now looking to get more into his literary and musical works (see Reverend Chet Thomas).