Actor

Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo is proud to have opened the Academy Award nominated film Lincoln opposite Daniel Day Lewis as Private Harold Green, directed by Steven Spielberg and was honored to ride the dolly for the signature shot co-starring as Blessing Rowe in the critically polarizing Red Hook Summer directed by Spike Lee.Colman recently starred in his new play “Wild with Happy” that inaugurated the 2012-2013 season at the esteemed Public Theater in New York City.The Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award nominee recently followed in the footsteps of Zakes Mokae, James Earl Jones and Danny Glover and starred as Zachariah in the New York revival of Blood Knot written and directed by Athol Fugard as the inaugral production of the Signature Theater Center Off Broadway in February 2012. Colman Domingo is a Tony Award nominee for Best Actor in a Featured role in a musical for The Scottsboro Boys. Mr. Domingo was recently honored by OUT magazine as part of their yearly honors for 100 people who made a difference in the LGBT community and Theater Bay Area’s 35 year anniversary honoring 35 individuals who have been instrumental to shaping what Theatre Bay Area is today. 2013 will be a blockbuster year for Mr. Domingo with significant feature film supporting lead roles in The Butler directed by Lee Daniels alongside an all star cast that includes Forrest Whittaker, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Pernell Walker, Robin Williams, Melissa Leo, Minka Kelly, James Marsden, Liev Schrieber and Cuba Gooding Jr., Lucky Dog opposite Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd and Sally Hawkins, directed by Phil Morrison, Hairbrained opposite Brendan Frasier and Alex Wolf, and Culling Hens. Colman co-stars in the indie feature Newlyweeds directed by Shaka King that will debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2013! Mr. Domingo well known for his star turns as Mr. Franklin and a German performance artist, Mr. Venus of Berlin, in the Tony and Drama Desk Award winning groundbreaking musical Passing Strange directed by Annie Dorsen on Broadway and documented on film by Spike Lee.

who has starred in his autobiographical solo show A Boy and His Soul at the Vineyard Theater. A Boy and His Soul won the Lucille Lortel (Best Solo Show) and GLAAD Media Award (Best Theater Broadway or Off Broadway) and was nominated for the Drama Desk, Audelco and Drama League Awards. Colman has had starring roles at illustrious regional and Off Broadway theaters such as The American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Sundance Theater Lab, San Jose Rep, California Shakespeare Theater and Manhattan Class Company.
The critically acclaimed actor, director and writer starred on the Rosie O’Donnell produced LOGO/MTV Networks series The Big Gay Sketch Show where he played characters as diverse as Oprah, Morgan Freeman, RuPaul, Tyra Banks, Nick Cannon, and Maya Angelou. He also was the host of LOGO’s first ever New, Now, Next Awards show. His television credits also include co-starring on multiple episodes of Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order Trial By Jury and recurred on Nash Bridges. He has starred in the film, King of the Bingo Game, the first ever screen adaptation of a Ralph Ellison story for PBS and has had supporting roles in films such as Freedomland (dir. Joe Roth), True Crime (dir. Clint Eastwood) and Miracle at St. Ana (dir. Spike Lee) among others.

As a director, he staged the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of “Exit Cuckoo” (The Working Theater) and “Single Black Female” (New Professional Theater). He has directed workshops/productions of plays for Roundabout Theater, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Berkeley Rep, Theater Rhinoceros, and Geva Theater/SUNY Brockport among others.  Colman has received residencies and/or artistic fellowships from The Public Theater, The Sundance Theater Lab, New York Theater Workshop, Theatreworks, The Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Cash Fund, New Professional Theater and the March of Dimes. He is on faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.Colman has been a part of concerts for Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, The 55 Bar and the Highline Ballroom.

OBIE, GLAAD, Lucille Lortel, Connecticut Critics Circle and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award winning actor Colman Domingo starred in the Kander and Ebb revival of Chicago in the role of Billy Flynn on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater. He starred in his autobiographical solo show “A Boy and His Soul” at the Vineyard Theater. It has garnered critical acclaim from the New York Times, Variety, AP, Time Out, Village Voice, Newsday, NY Post, and the NY Daily News among others. The play won the GLAAD Media Award for Best Theater  Broadway/Off Broadway in New York, The Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show, and The Internet Bloggers Association Award for Best Solo Performance. Colman won the prestigious Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a play for his work in the world premiere of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home at the Tony Award winning Long Wharf Theater.

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The actor, director and writer starred on the Rosie O’Donnell produced LOGO/MTV Networks series “The Big Gay Sketch Show” for two seasons where he plays characters as diverse as Oprah, Morgan Freeman, RuPaul, Tyra Banks, Nick Cannon, and Maya Angelou. He also was the host of LOGO’s first ever “New, Now, Next Awards” show. His television credits also include co-starring on multiple episodes of “Law & Order” and “Nash Bridges.” He has starred in the film, “King of the Bingo Game,” the first ever screen adaptation of a Ralph Ellison story for PBS. He has had supporting roles in films such as “Freedomland” (dir. Joe Roth), True Crime (dir. Clint Eastwood) and “Miracle at St. Ana” (dir. Spike Lee) among others. As a director, he staged the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of “Exit Cuckoo” (The Working Theater) and “Single Black Female” (New Professional Theater).  Colman has received residencies and/or commissions from New York Theater Workshop, The Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Cash Fund, New Professional Theater and the March of Dimes. Colman has been a part of concerts for Carnegie Hall understudying Tarik aka Black Thought of “The Roots” , Joe’s Pub concerts curated by himself, The 55 Bar and the Highline Ballroom jam session with “The Roots.”

Mr. Domingo is on faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has guest lectured at the University of Wisconsin, Madison O.M.A.I., The New York Writers Institute as the Burian Lecture Fellow, University of Minnesota, The Art Institute of San Francisco and Community College of Philadelphia (The Center for Male Engagement).

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