A 2020 Julliard School Creative Associate, Colman Domingo is an actor, playwright, director, and producer with various accolades under his belt, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He has also been nominated for the Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League, and NAACP Theatre Awards, won an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award, and received the AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Actor in 2023 and the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in 2022.

Domingo's breakthrough came when he starred as Victor Strand in the AMC series "Fear the Walking Dead," and he has held various roles on television shows like "The Twilight Zone" and the critically acclaimed "Euphoria," for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2022. He also lent his voice to the Spotify scripted podcast "The Riddler: Secrets in the Dark."

He has appeared in numerous films such as Without Remorse, Zola, The God Committee, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Candyman, and Sing Sing, and also starred in the Academy Award-winning drama If Beale Street Could Talk, the Academy Award-nominated film Selma as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and in Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg. Domingo's filmography also includes roles in Assassination Nation, First Match, and Lucy in the Sky. In 2023, he starred as Mister in the musical adaptation of The Color Purple and as civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in the Netflix film Rustin, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

On Broadway, Domingo's early roles include the 2005 play "Well" and the 2008 musical "Passing Strange." He gained further acclaim for his role as Mr. Bones in the musical "The Scottsboro Boys," which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor. Domingo wrote the book for the Broadway musical "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical," which was honored with two Tony Award nominations and nominations for Drama Desk and Drama League awards. Domingo is also set to play Joe Jackson in the musical biopic Michael in 2025.

Apart from his acting career, Domingo has made significant contributions to academia. He is on the faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has taught at institutions including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin, the Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison O.M.A.I., The New York Writers Institute as the Burian Lecture Fellow, University of Minnesota, Temple University, The Art Institute of San Francisco, and Community College of Philadelphia. Outside of his professional life, Domingo is openly gay and is married to Raúl Domingo.

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