John Douglas Thompson, acclaimed actor and teacher, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this May for a development workshop exploring William Shakespeare.
Through his impressive body of work John Douglas Thompson has established himself as a highly regarded and versatile actor in theater, film, and television, hailed by The New York Times “as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation.”
John most recently appeared as Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Broadway in Jitney (Tony nomination), King Lear, A Time To Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Carousel, and Julius Caesar. He also starred in Endgame at Irish Rep; Hamlet and Julius Caesar with Shakespeare In The Park; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience; Huntington Theatre Company’s Man in the Ring (Elliot Norton Award) and in the titular role of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of Hamlet.
John’s other credits include Troilus & Cressida and King Lear at The Public Theater; The Father, A Doll’s House, Macbeth, and Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award) at Theatre for a New Audience; The Iceman Cometh (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Tamburlaine (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Satchmo At The Waldorf (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the NAACP Theatre Awards) at Westside Theater, ACT, Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts, and Long Wharf Theater; The Forest and The Emperor Jones at Irish Repertory Theatre (Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations); and Hedda Gabler at New York Theatre Workshop.
His regional credits include Joe Turner’s Come And Gone at Mark Taper Forum (Ovation Award); Antony And Cleopatra; Red Velvet, Othello, Richard III, and Mother Courage at Shakespeare & Co.; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award); and productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, American Repertory Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre among others.
John’s television credits include: The Gilded Age, Mare Of Easttown, For Life, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and his film credits include: Highest 2 Lowest, Till, 21 Bridges, 355, Let Them All Talk, Wolves, The Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Midway, and Malcolm X. John is a recipient of 2022 Eugene O’Neill Medallion.
