Jacob Ming-Trent
Biography
Broadway: Shrek (Original cast), Hands on a Hardbody, (Original Cast). Off Broadway: The harder they come, Pedro, Public theater, Lortel Nom. Alchemist, Mammon, Redbull, Lortel Nom. Merry wives, Falstaff, Public theater, Drama desk nom. Father comes home from the wars, Public theater, Lortel Award. Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Public theater. Cymbeline, Public Theater. Merchant of Venice, TFANA. Midsummer night’s dream, TFANA. Tempest, Public Theater. On the levee, Lincoln Center. TV: White Famous, showtime (series regular), Watchmen, HBO (series regular), Ray Donovan. Showtime (Recurring), Feed the beast, AMC (recurring). only murders in the building, WU-TANG, New Amsterdam, God friended me, ECT. Film: Superfly, Forty-year-old Version, R#J, Possession of Hannah grace, The Bygone, Julie Taymour’s Midsummer night’s dream. friendship with Paul Rudd. shallow tale, with Steve Buschemi. Playwrite: How Shakespeare Saved My Life – Redbull Theater.
Credits
Gypsy, Hands on a Hardbody, Shrek the Musical
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