Jacob Ming-Trent

Jacob Ming-Trent is an actor who booked his first play at age eleven in Pittsburgh, where he was raised after being born in Boston. He trained at a performing arts middle school and Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts high school, then moved to New York City at seventeen for the Stella Adler Conservatory. In his first year he entered the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab, and after finishing that program he was accepted into the American Conservatory Theater's M.F.A. program. His stage work has included Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, theaters in Birmingham and London, and work in forty-eight states. He collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights, most notably Suzan Lori Parks on Father Comes Home from the Wars, playing Odesee the Dog and earning a Lucille Lortel Award for his supporting performance in a play. The play also received the Pulitzer, Lucille Lortel, and IRNE awards. He also worked in film and television.