Colman Domingo Biography
Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award nominated and OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award winning actor, playwright and director. He is currently on location, starring in "The Birth of A Nation" directed by Nate Parker. Colman has joined the cast of AMC's "Fear The Walking Dead," which premiers in August 2015. Domingo also recurs on season two of the Cinemax original series "The Knick" as Dr. Russell Daniels and recently filmed the Ava DuVernay helmed pilot, "For Justice," for CBS produced by Robert DeNiro. Mr. Domingo has starred in the Academy Award® nominated Paramount/Pathé film, "Selma," directed by Ava DuVernay, as Reverend Ralph Abernathy and "Time Out of Mind" with Richard Gere which premieres later this year.
Domingo starred in The London Evening Standard Award winning, "The Scottsboro Boys," at the Young Vic in London a role which he originated on and Off Broadway and reprised on the West End. He co-starred in many films such as Lee Daniels' "The Butler" directed by Lee Daniels, "All is Bright" directed by Phil Morrison, and "Newlyweeds" directed by Shaka King. Colman is proud to have opened the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Ensemble 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 starring as Blessing Rowe in the critically polarizing "Red Hook Summer" directed by Spike Lee.
Mr. Domingo has starred in the first ever screen adaptation of a Ralph Ellison story for PBS, "King of the Bingo Game." He has had supporting roles in films such as "Freedomland" directed by Joe Roth, "True Crime" directed by Clint Eastwood, and "Miracle at St. Ana" directed by Spike Lee.
Domingo 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 inaugural production of the Signature Theater Center Off Broadway. Colman is 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.
Colman made his British and Australian theatrical debuts (★★★★★ The Telegraph) with his self penned solo play, "A Boy and His Soul," at the Tricycle Theater and Brisbane Powerhouse Theaters, the production which originated at the New York City’s stalwart Vineyard Theater. He starred in his play "Wild with Happy," that had its debut at the Public Theater. His new play, "Dot," premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville and will premiere Off Broadway at the Vineyard Theater directed by Susan Stroman in 2016.
As a director, he recently staged the Off-Broadway Alliance Best Family Musical Award winning production of "A Band of Angels" and will helm August Wilson’s Seven Guitars for Actors Theater of Louisville in the fall of 2015. He helmed the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of "Exit Cuckoo" for The Working Theater and Single Black Female for the New Professional Theater. He has directed for Berkeley Rep as well as Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Colman has received residencies and/or commissions from ACT, People's Light & Theatre Company, New York Theater Workshop, The Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Cash Fund, New Professional Theater and the March of Dimes.
Mr. Domingo is on the Board of the Directors of the Vineyard Theater in New York City. Colman is on faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has taught, guest lectured and mentored at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin, the Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison O.M.A.I., The New York Writers Institute as the Burian Lecture Fellow, University of Minnesota, Temple University, The Art Institute of San Francisco and Community College of Philadelphia.
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