Joseph Mydell

Joseph Mydell is an American actor who has worked on stage and screen. Born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1955, he trained with the Atlanta Morehouse Spelman Players in Shakespeare's The Tempest and Wole Soyinka's Trials of Brother Jero. At New York University he studied with Lloyd Richards, Olympia Dukakis, and Kristin Linklater and was directed by Andre Gregory. He began professionally in New York, performing at Lincoln Center and with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and earned his Equity card understudying Clevon Little off-Broadway. He also worked at Seattle Repertory theater. In 1979 he traveled to England to develop a solo show about Paul Laurence Dunbar titled Lyrics of the Hearthside. It won a Fringe First and a Best One-Man Show award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1980 and later toured Africa. He went on to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company for over 30 years and appeared extensively at the Royal National theater.