Colman Domingo Biography

Colman Domingo (born November 28, 1969) is an American stage, film and television actor, playwright and director.

Life and career

Domingo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Temple University, where he majored in journalism. Soon thereafter he moved to San Francisco, California, where he started acting, mainly in theatre productions.

Domingo starred as Mr. Franklin Jones, Joop, and Mr. Venus, in the critically acclaimed rock musical Passing Strange, which, after a successful 2007 run at The Public Theater, opened on Broadway on February 28, 2008. He received an Obie Award in spring 2008 as part of the ensemble of Passing Strange Off-Broadway and reprised his roles in the film version of Passing Strange, directed by Spike Lee, which made its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. In 2010, Domingo's self-penned, one-man autobiographical play A Boy and His Soul premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater, for which he won a GLAAD Award: Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway and a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show. He was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award.

Domingo starred as Billy Flynn in Chicago, the longest running revival on Broadway, and in the final collaboration by Kander and Ebb of The Scottsboro Boys, directed by Susan Stroman on Broadway in Fall 2010. For the latter role, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical, in May 2011. When the The Scottsboro Boys opened in London in Fall 2013, Domingo was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical in April 2014. He was nominated for the Fred Astaire Award for Best Principal Dancer on Broadway in 2011.

In 2015, Domingo began appearing in a recurring role on AMC's post-apocalyptic, zombie series Fear the Walking Dead, as a character named Victor Strand. In December 2015, it was announced that Domingo was promoted to series regular for Season 2 of the series.

Domingo has taught at the O'Neill National Theater Institute, University of Texas at Austin, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Awards and nominations

Awards

• 1997: Dean Goodman Choice Award - "Blues for an Alabama Sky" by Pearl Cleage at TheatreWorks (Silicon Valley)
• 2006: Bay Area Critics Circle Award Performance - "Passing Strange" by Stew at The Berkeley Repertory Theater
• 2008: Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actor in a Play - "Coming Home" by Athol Fugard at Long Wharf Theatre
• 2008: Obie Award Performance - "Passing Strange" by Stew at The Public Theatre
• 2010: Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Solo Show - "A Boy and His Soul" by Colman Domingo at Vineyard Theatre
• 2010: ITBA Award, Outstanding Solo Show - "A Boy and His Soul" by Colman Domingo at Vineyard Theatre
• 2015: Black Reel Award, Best Ensemble - "Selma" directed by Ava DuVernay

Nominations

• 2010: Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance - "A Boy and His Soul" by Colman Domingo at Vineyard Theatre
• 2010: Drama League Award Nomination, Distinguished Performance - "A Boy and His Soul" by Colman Domingo at Vineyard Theatre
• 2010: Black Reel Award, Best Ensemble - "Passing Strange" directed by Spike Lee
• 2011: Fred and Adele Astaire Award Nomination, Outstanding Male Dancer - "The Scottsboro Boys" by Fred Ebb, John Kander and David Thompson
• 2011: Tony Award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical - "The Scottsboro Boys" by Fred Ebb, John Kander and David Thompson
• 2014: Whatsonstage.com Awards, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical - "The Scottsboro Boys" by Fred Ebb, John Kander and David Thompson
• 2014: Olivier Award, Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical - "The Scottsboro Boys" by Fred Ebb, John Kander and David Thompson
• 2014: San Diego Film Critics Society, Best Ensemble - "Selma"
• 2014: Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, Best Ensemble - "Selma"

Stage

As playwright

• 2009 A Boy and His Soul
• 2012 Wild With Happy
• 2016 Dot
• 2017 SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical (book co-written with Robert Cary, and Des McAnuff)

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1997	Blues for an Alabama Sky	Guy	TheatreWorks
1997	Midsummer Night's Dream	Oberon, Theseus	San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
1999	Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio	Shakespeare Santa Cruz
2000	Fences	Gabriel	TheatreWorks
2000	Taming of the Shrew	Lucentio	California Shakespeare Theater
2000	Love's Labour's Lost	Costard	California Shakespeare Theater
2001	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Speed	Geva Theatre Center
2002	Midsummer Night's Dream	Lysander	California Shakespeare Theater
2002	Winter's Tale	Autolycus	California Shakespeare Theater |
2003	Henry V	Duke of Bourbon	Delacorte Theater|
2004	All's Well That Ends Well	Lavatch	California Shakespeare Theater
2005	People's Temple	Eugene Smith and others	Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2006	People's Temple	Eugene Smith and others	Guthrie Theater
2006	Passing Strange	Mr. Franklin/Mr. Venus	Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2007	Passing Strange	Mr. Franklin/Mr. Venus	Joseph Papp Public Theater, Anspacher Theater
2007	Well	Jim and others	Huntington Theatre
2008	Passing Strange	Mr. Franklin/Mr. Venus	Broadway, Belasco Theatre
2009	Coming Home	Alfred Witbooy	Long Wharf Theatre
2009	'	The Wiz	New York City Center Encores!
2009	A Boy and His Soul	Self, also *playwright	Vineyard Theatre
2010	'	Mr. Bones	Vineyard Theatre
2010	'	Mr. Bones	Guthrie Theater
2010	'	Mr. Bones	Broadway, Lyceum Theatre
2010, 2011	Chicago	Billy Flynn	Broadway, Ambassador Theatre
2011	Blood Knot	Zachariah Pietersen	Signature Theatre
2012	Wild with Happy	Gil, also *playwright	Joseph Papp Public Theater, LuEsther Hall
2013	Wild with Happy	Gil, also *playwright	TheatreWorks, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
2013	A Boy and His Soul	Self	Tricycle Theatre
2013	'	Mr. Bones	The Young Vic
2014	A Boy and His Soul	Self	Brisbane Powerhouse
2014	Guys and Dolls	Rusty Charlie	Carnegie Hall
2014	Nothing Personal	James Baldwin	Live Ideas Festival at the New York Live Arts
2014	'	Mr. Bones	West End theatre, Garrick Theatre

Film

Year	Film	Role
1995	Timepiece	Khris
1998	Around the Fire	Trace
1999	King of the Bingo Game	Sonny
1999	True Crime	Wally Cartwright
2000	Desi's Looking for a New Girl	Mother
2003	Kung Phooey!	Roy Lee
2006	Freedomland	Male Patient
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	West Indian Postal Customer
2012	Lincoln	Private Harold Green
2012	Red Hook Summer	Blessing Rowe
2013	All Is Bright	Nzomo
2013	42	Lawson Bowman
2013	HairBrained	Finals Moderator
2013	'	Freddie Fallows
2014	400 Boys	Talon
2014	Selma	Ralph Abernathy
2015	Time Out of Mind	Mr. Oyello
2016	Beautiful Something	Drew
2016	The Birth of a Nation	Hark Turner
2017	Assassination Nation

Television

Year	Show	Role	Episode name	Notes
1997	Nash Bridges	Reggie Harell	"Dirty Tricks"	4 episodes total
1999	Nash Bridges	Hassam Desmond Kenner	"Power Play" "Girl Trouble"	4 episodes total
2000	Nash Bridges	Trumpet Player	"Skin Trade"	4 episodes total
2004	Law & Order	Ronald Gumer	"Hands Free"	2 episodes total
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Sergeant Ev Sides	"To the Bone"	2 episodes total
2006	Law & Order: Trial by Jury	Gus	"Eros in the Upper Eighties"
2008	'			8 episodes; 16 episodes total
2008	Law & Order	Donnie	"Sweetie"	2 episodes total
2009	Great Performances	Mr. Franklin/Mr. Venus/Joop	"Passing Strange"	musical telecast
2010	'			8 episodes; 16 episodes total
2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Andre Lanier	"Love Sick"	2 episodes total
2015-present	Fear the Walking Dead	Victor Strand		Season 1 (Recurring role; 2 episodes) Season 2-present (Starring; 13 episodes)
2015	The Knick	Dr. Russell Daniels		Season 2 (Recurring role)
2016	Lucifer	Father Frank Lawrence	"Priest Walks Into a Bar"
2016	Horace and Pete	Dr. Evers	"Episode 8"
2017	Timeless	Bass Reeves	"The Murder of Jesse James"