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Click here to listen to his interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: The Harder They<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2sA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9460\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}