The Thing is the Thing: Playing and Not Playing Shakespeare While Black

Stage and television actor and playwright, Keith Hamilton Cobb, has performed throughout the country at venues such as The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington DC, The Denver Theatre Center, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Orlando Shakespeare Festival, The Geva Theatre Center, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, enacting the roles of Laertes in Hamlet, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus, Oberon and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Caesar in Julius Caesar. He created for television the roles of Noah Keefer for ABC’s All My Children; the role of galactic mercenary Tyr Anasazi for Gene Rodenberry’s Andromeda; the role of Damon Porter for CBS’s The Young and the Restless; and the role of Quincy Abrams for the series, Noah’s Arc on the Logo network. Cobb wrote American Moor in 2013, a solo play that explores the perspective of the African American male through the metaphor of Shakespeare's character, Othello. The play has received several awards and has been added to the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.