Chuck Cooper, Actor/Singer:
Is a veteran of nine Broadway plays
and musicals and numerous television guest leads and film
appearances over the span of his 30 years as a professional
actor. He won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a
musical for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His
other Broadway credits include: Lennon; Caroline, Or
Change (Audelco Award, Best Featured Actor); Chicago;
Passion; Someone to Watch Over Me; Rumors;
Amen Corner; Getting Away With Murder; Hair
(BCEFA concert event); and St. Louis Woman; in City
Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap
Dance Kid; Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind.
Off-Broadway: Caroline Or Change (the
Public Theatre) Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta
Lane, Audelco Nomination); Marco Polo Sings a Solo
(Signature Theatre); Avenue X; Police Boys;
Four Short Operas (Playwrights Horizons); Colored
People's Time (Negro Ensemble Co.); King Island Christmas
(SIR Studios).
Regional Theatre: Being Alive (Westport
Country Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co.) Dance of the
Holy Ghosts (Yale Rep); The World Beyond the Hill
(Berkshire Theatre Festival); Robeson (Passage Theatre);
Thunder Knocking On The Door (Trinity Repertory);
Othello (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar
(Philadelphia Drama Guild); Two Trains Running, The
Doctor Is Out, Coriolanus, and Timon Of Athens
(The Old Globe Theatre); The Tempest, American Dreams
Lost And Found (Alliance Theatre).
Television credits: 3 LBS., Hack;
100 Centre Street; Law & Order; Law And Order
SVU; Oz; Strangers with Candy; NYPD Blue;
Cosby; The Cosby Mysteries; New York Undercover;
I'll Fly Away; The Bold and the Beautiful; As
The World Turns.
Film credits: Noise; Evening;
American Gangster; Find Me Guilty; Three Days of
Rain; Our Song; The Hurricane; The
Opportunists; Gloria; The Peacemaker; The
Juror; North; Criminal Justice.
Mr. Cooper is a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale
school of drama. Favorite role: Eddie, Alex and Lilli's father.
BROADWAY
| LENNON (Chuck) |
Don Scardino/
Broadhurst Theatre |
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Bus/Dryer)
* Audelco Winner –
Best Featured Actor |
George C. Wolfe /
Public and Eugene O'Neill Theatre |
| CHICAGO (Billy Flynn) |
Walter Bobbie / The
Shubert |
THE LIFE (Memphis)
* Tony Award Winner –
Best Featured Actor |
Michael Blakemore /
Barrymore |
| ST. LOUIS WOMAN (Badfoot) |
Jack O’Brien / City
Center-Encores! |
| SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH
OVER ME (Adam) |
Robin LeFevre / Booth
Theatre |
| GETTING AWAY W/MURDER
(Dan u/s) |
Jack O'Brien /
Broadhurst |
| PASSION (Swing) |
James Lapine / Plymouth
Theatre |
| RUMORS (Officer Welch) |
Gene Saks / Broadhurst |
| AMEN CORNER (Brother
Boxer) |
Phil Rose / Nederlander |
| THE TAP DANCE KID
(William) |
Jerry Zaks / Broadway
National Tour |
| EUBIE |
Julian Boyde / Broadway
National Tour |
|
Caroline, or Change (Bus/Dryer) |
George C. Wolf / Public Theater |
| THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR |
Oskar Eustis / Minetta Lane |
| JAWBONE (Blind One-Man Band) |
Israel Hicks / Manhattan Theatre Club
Reading |
| MARCO POLO SINGS A SOLO (Frank Schaeffer) |
Mel Shapiro / Signature Theatre |
| AVENUE X (Rosco) |
Mark Brokaw / Playwrights Horizons |
| POLICE BOYS (Jabali LaRouch) |
Donald Douglas / Playwrights Horizons |
| FOUR SHORT OPERAS (M.J. LaChiusa/Comp.) |
Kirsten Sanderson / Playwrights Horizons |
| COLORED PEOPLE'S TIME |
Horancina J. Taylor / The Negro Ensemble |
| WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (Edward) |
Harold Prince / Pre-Broadway |
| KING ISLAND CHRISTMAS (Ooloranna) |
Pat Birch / SIR Studios |
|
Being Alive (Man 1) |
Billy Porter / Philadelphia Theatre
Company |
|
Being Alive (Man 1) |
Billy Porter / Westport Country Playhouse |
Two Trains Running (Memphis)
* San Diego Critics Choice Award |
Seret Scott / Old Globe |
|
Saint Heaven (Pastor Joe Bertram) |
Matt Lenz / Stamford Center for the Arts |
|
Dance of the Holy Ghost (Oscar) |
Liz Diamond / Yale Repertory Theatre |
|
Lennon (Chuck) |
Don Scardino/Musical Tour |
|
Caroline or Change (Bus/Dryer) |
George Wolfe / Musical Tour |
|
The World Beyond the Hill (W.E.B. DuBois) |
John Hadden /
Berkshire Theatre Festival |
| THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR |
Marion McClinton / Trinity Repertory Co. |
| ROBESON (Paul Robeson) |
Jeffrey V. Thompson / Passage Theatre |
| THE DOCTOR IS OUT (Dan) |
Jack O'Brien / Old Globe, San Diego |
| CORIOLANUS (Tullus Aufidius) |
John Hirsh / Old Globe |
| TIMON OF ATHENS (Lord Lucullas) |
Robert Berlinger / Old Globe |
| OTHELLO (Othello) |
Bob Walsh / N.J. Shakespeare Festival |
| MISS EVERS' BOYS (Dr. Brodus) |
Kenny Leon / Alliance Theatre Co. |
| THE TEMPEST (Caliban) |
Kent Stephens / Alliance Theatre Co. |
| JULIUS CAESAR (Brutus) |
Michael Murray / Philadelphia Drama Guild |
| TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Tom Robinson) |
PAF Playhouse |
| 3
Lbs (Guest Star) |
CBS |
|
Manhattan Valley (Guest Lead) |
PBS |
| HACK (Guest Lead) |
CBS |
| LAW & ORDER: SVU (Guest Lead) |
NBC |
|
Without a Trace (Guest Lead) |
CBS |
| 100 CENTRE STREET (Recurring) |
Sidney Lumet / A&E |
|
Third Watch (Fire Chief Blankenkenship) |
NBC |
| OZ (Guest Lead) |
HBO |
|
Strangers with Candy (Referee) |
Comedy Central |
| LAW & ORDER (Guest Lead) |
Fred Gerber / NBC |
| NYPD BLUE (Featured) |
ABC |
| NEW YORK NEWS (The Principal) |
Michael Engler / CBS/ Ian Sander |
| THE COSBY MYSTERIES (Ward Lawson) |
Corey Allen / NBC |
| I'LL FLY AWAY (Guest Lead) |
Joe Napolitano / Lorimar |
| AS THE WORLD TURNS |
CBS |
| THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (Det. Lewis) |
CBS |
| AMERICAN GANGSTER (Private Doctor) |
Ridley Scott |
| EVENING (Ray) |
Lajos Koltai |
| NOISE |
Henry Bean |
| IMMACULATE MISCONCEPTION (BB King) |
Greg Levins |
| CHAPTER 27 (Cabbie) |
Jarrett Schaefer |
| A CRIME (Will) |
Robin O'Hara |
| FIND ME GUILTY |
Sidney Lumet |
|
Stripsearch: Thoughtcrimes (Detective Resetartis) |
Beech Hill Films/Sidney Lumet |
| THREE DAYS OF RAIN |
Michael Meredith |
| OUR SONG (Benjamin) |
Jim McKay |
| THE HURRICANE (Earl Martin) |
Norman Jewison |
| THE OPPORTUNISTS (Det. Armon Morris) |
Myles Connell |
| GLORIA (Guard) |
Sidney Lumet / G. Mac Brown |
| THE PEACE MAKER (NYPD Police Chief) |
Mimi Leder / Amblin Entertainment |
| THE JUROR (The Stockbroker) |
Frank Gibson / Columbia Pictures |
| NORTH (Umpire) |
Rob Reiner / Castle Rock |
| CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Judge Whitney) |
Andy Wolk / HBO |
