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Jacob Ming-Trent<\/strong> (Actor and Playwright)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folger Theatre: How Shakespeare Saved My Life<\/em><\/span> (Reading Room Festival 2024), A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/span>; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Merry Wives<\/span>. Broadway: Gypsy<\/span> revival, original cast, Shrek the Musical<\/span>, original cast, Hands on a Hardbody<\/span>, original cast. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: The Harder They Come<\/span> (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, AUDELCO nomination), Twelfth Night<\/span>, Father Comes Home from the Wars<\/span> (Lortel Award, AUDELCO nomination), Cymbeline<\/span>, The Tempest<\/span>; Shakespeare in the Park: Merry Wives<\/span> (Drama Desk nomination); Classic Stage Company: Mother Courage<\/span>; Red Bull Theater: Medea Re-Versed<\/span> (Lortel nomination), The Alchemist,<\/span> Mammon<\/span> (Lortel nomination); Theatre for a New Audience: The Merchant of Venice<\/span>, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/span>; Epic Theater Ensemble: Widowers\u2019 Houses<\/span>; Lincoln Center Theater: On the Levee<\/span>. Television: Showtime: White Famous<\/em> (series regular), Ray Donovan<\/em> (recurring); HBO: Watchmen<\/em> (series regular); AMC: Feed the Beast<\/em> (recurring); Only Murders in the Building<\/em>; WU-TANG: An American Saga<\/em>; New Amsterdam<\/em>; God Friended Me<\/em>; High Maintenance<\/em>, and more. Film: Superfly<\/strong>, Forty-Year-Old Version<\/strong>, Snakes<\/strong>, R+J<\/strong>, Possession of Hannah Grace<\/strong>, The Bygone<\/strong>, Julie Taymour\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/strong>, Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer\u2026<\/strong>, Friendship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to listen to his interview. Jacob Ming-Trent (Actor and Playwright) Folger Theatre: How Shakespeare Saved My Life (Reading Room Festival 2024), A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Merry Wives. Broadway: Gypsy revival, original cast, Shrek the Musical, original cast, Hands on a Hardbody, original cast. 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