After spending 30-plus years honing his craft for stage and screen, Colman Domingo is more than ready for his close-up. Considering the actor’s versatile resume, which includes memorable performances inand a handful of Tony nominations, it’s bewildering that his recent portrayal of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, in Netflix’sDEADLINE: With five films under your belt this year alone, it feels like the year of Colman Domingo.
But you’ve been creative in front of and behind the camera as a writer, director, actor and producer for over three decades.I started in this industry as a multi-hyphenate, just trying to create work in San Francisco many years ago in the early ’90s. I took some classes, studied, and started getting cast in things, and my whole career was just about learning while I was in the rooms as a craftsman. I didn’t go to graduate school for acting. I learned everything by being in rooms and watching rehearsals I wasn’t even called for because I was learning. I was watching relationships between directors, actors, playwrights and producers, you name i