Novella Nelson

Teiresias/Shepherd in Oedipus. Broadway: Having Our Say, The Little Foxes, Caesar and Cleopatra, Purlie, Hello Dolly. Theater: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Actors Theatre), Division Street (Second Stage), The Odyssey (White Horse Theatre Company), Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Skin of Our Teeth (Public Theater/Delacorte), Passing Games (American Place Theatre), A Piece of My Heart (Roundabout Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville), Widows (Mark Taper Forum), The Cider House Rules (Seattle Repertory Company), Boesman and Lena and Hecuba (Yale Repertory Theatre), and Breaking Eleven, Oedipus, Camino Real, and Bailey's Café (director) at Hartford Stage. Member of the original Acting Company of Lincoln Center Directors' Lab. Upcoming films include: Jonathan Glazer's Birth, Thomas Vinterberg/Lars van Trier's Dear Wendy, and Charles Randolph Wright's On the One. Other films: Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher, Chris Rock's Head of State, Spike Lee's Clockers, Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club, Peter Weir's Green Card, and Taylor Hackford's The Devil's Advocate. Extensive list of television credits (recurring role as Judge Fitzwater on One Life to Live); has also worked as director with Lincoln Center Theatre, The Public Theater, and the Negro Ensemble Company.