John Douglas Thompson
Broadway: King Lear, Becker in August Wilson’s Jitney (Tony nomination), Carousel, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar. International: Othello, Henry IV, Royal Shakespeare Company; The Merchant of Venice, Royal Lyceum Theater. Off-Broadway: Endgame at Irish Rep (Obie Award); The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Hamlet (Obie and AUDELCO Awards), Julius Caesar, King Lear at Public Theater; The Iceman Cometh at BAM (Obie and Drama Desk Awards); Tamburlaine (Obie, Drama Desk and AUDELCO Awards), Macbeth (title role), Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Joe A. Callaway Award), A Doll’s House, The Father, Oroonoko at TFANA; Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, NAACP Awards) at the Westside Theater; The Forest at Classic Stage Company; The Emperor Jones at Irish Rep (Joe A. Callaway Award and Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations); Hedda Gabler at New York Theatre Workshop.
Regional: Inherit The Wind at Pasadena Playhouse; The Tempest at Commonwealth Shakespeare (Elliot Norton Award); Man In The Ring at Huntington Theater (Elliot Norton Award); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Mark Taper Forum (Ovation Award); Hamlet (title role) at ACT; Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage; Red Velvet, Othello, Richard III, King Lear, and Mother Courage at Shakespeare & Co; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Wilma Theater (Barrymore Award); and productions at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, American Repertory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Television and Film: Highest 2 Lowest, The Gilded Age, Mare of Easttown, Till, For Life, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Wolves, Bull, Person of Interest, Madam Secretary, Law & Order, Conviction, 355, Let Them All Talk, Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Michael Clayton, Malcolm X.
Additional Awards: John is a Fox Fellow recipient, and has received the Samuel H. Scripps Award, the Robert Brustein Award for sustained excellence in American theater, the William Shakespeare Award For Classical Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill Medallion Award, the Matador Award, and the AAFCA Award for Distinguished Achievement.