John Douglas Thompson is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, two Drama Desk Awards and two Obie Awards, as well as being nominated for a Tony Award.
The New York Times critic Ben Brantley described Thompson as “one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation”.
He can currently be heard in The Public Theater / WNYC’s radio production of Richard II.
His Broadway credits include Carousel, Jitney (Tony Award nomination), A Time to Kill, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Off Broadway credits include The Iceman Cometh (Obie Award, Drama Desk Award; BAM); A Doll’s House, The Father, Macbeth, Othello (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award); Tamburlaine the Great (Obie Award, Drama Desk Award) (Theatre for a New Audience), Satchmo at the Waldorf (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and NAACP Theatre Award), The Emperor Jones (Irish Repertory Theatre), and Hedda Gabler (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional credits include Hamlet (American Conservatory Theater), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Ovation Award, Center Theatre Group), Richard III and Red Velvet (Shakespeare and Company), Othello (Trinity Repertory Company), Mother Courage (American Repertory Theater), and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Barrymore Award,Wilma Theater). Film and television credits include The Bourne Legacy, Glass Chin, Michael Clayton, Wolves, Bull, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Law & Order: SVU, Madam Secretary, and Person of Interest.