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.
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.
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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