Colman Domingo Quotes

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

One of the first plays I ever did was at the Royal Court Theatre in London; it was the first play I got after drama school.

The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.

When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.

I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.

I did little theater things growing up.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.