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Derrick Lee Weeden*
Earl of Gloucester

Shakespeare Theatre Company :  Henry IV pts. 1 and 2  (Lord Chief Justice), Coriolanus (Sicinius), Wallenstein (Kolibas ), Richard II (Northumberland),  Henry V (Exeter). 

The Guthrie Theatre : Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (John Prentice Sr.).

Syracuse Stage/Seattle Rep: The Piano Lesson (Doeker Charles).

Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts : Fences (Troy), The Whipping Man (Simon), Cyrano De Bergerac (Cyrano). Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Othello (Othello). 

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (22 Seasons) Hamlet (Polonius), Great Expectations (Magwich), Antony and Cleopatra (Mark Antony), Death and The Kings Horseman (Elesin), The Tempest (Prospero), Gem of the Ocean (Ceasar), The Philanderer (Leonard Charteris), Julius Ceasar (Brutus), The Three Sisters (Vershinin), Othello (Othello), Seven Guitars (Headley), Le Blancs (Tshembe Matoseh), Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Measure for Measure (Duke Vincentio), Richard II (Bolingbroke), among others.

Other Theatres: Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

(The Continental Divide Tour): Daughters of The Revolution(Kwesi Ntuli) and Mother's Against (Vincent Baptiste) :  Barbican Theatre Center, London U.K., La Jolla Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Birmingham U.K. Berkeley RepertoryTheatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Backstage West (Garland Awards) for Othello and Les Blancs

Training: M.F.A. Southern Methodist University