Colman Domingo’s recent performances include Passing Strange at Berkeley Rep and Well at the Huntington Theater in Boston. He was in the acting company of Well on Broadway as well. Colman was also recently in the celebrated world premiere of People’s Temple at Berkeley Rep and the Guthrie. Off Broadway credits include Henry V (NYSF/Public), Bright Ideas (MCC), Wet (Summer Play Festival), American Maul (Culture Project) and Up Jumped Springtime (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab/American Living Room Festival), Regionally he has worked at A.C.T., The Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, Huntington, New York Stage and Film, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Indiana Rep, San Jose Rep, TheaterWorks, Cal Shakes, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Geva, Perseverance Theater, Thick Description, Campo Santo and Word for Word (France Tour).

Film and television work include Law and Order: Trial by Jury, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order, Nash Bridges, True Crime, King of the Bingo Game, Around the Fire, Kung Phooey, Desi’s Looking for a New Girl, Freedomland, and as a mock-u-mentary host for Theater is Dead for the Sir Peter Hall Company/Theater Royale Bath. He has been awarded Five Dean Goodman Choice Awards, a Back Stage West/ Drama-logue Award, and a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination. Upcoming projects include his solo play A Boy and his Soul, playing Sonny in James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues that will tour France in 2008 for Word for Word Theater Company, and People’s Temple regionally and in New York.

Colman has directed Single Black Female (Off Broadway, New Professional Theater/Peter Jay Sharp, LA Complex and S.F.’s Theater Rhinoceros), Sundiata (Berkeley Rep), Up Jumped Springtime (Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, American Living Room Festival), Once on this Island (Geva Theater/Suny Brockport), Rhinoceros (Theater Rhinoceros), Raised in Captivity (Inquiline Theater Company), New York Writer’s Institute, Magic Theater’s Young California Writer’s Project, Play Ground’s Emerging Playwright’s Festival, Solo Mio Festival, Intersection for the Arts, Campo Santo, S.F. Mime Troupe and the African American Shakespeare Company. He was the former Artistic Director of Afrobluesoulpower Theater Company where he penned the play Up Jumped Springtime and produced Watermelon.

Colman has been a proud recipient of the Theater Bay Area Cash Award, Chashama Area Award, and a New York Theater Workshop Residency at Dartmouth. He is a New York Theater Workshop “Usual Suspect”, active member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and is on the faculty of the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He has taught acting workshops and classes at Sonoma State University, University of Minnesota, State University of New York at Brockport, Art Institute of San Francisco, Brooklyn Friends School, Balboa High School, New Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep School of Theater, San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Red Studios New York.

Learn more about Colman at colmandomingo.com and on Colman's myspace page.