Graham Brown is an award-winning American

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 actor best known for his work in the theatre.

Biography

Born Robert Brown in New York, New York, he is best known for his work on the stage. He worked extensively with the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC)

Negro Ensemble Company

The Negro Ensemble Company is a New York City-based theater company. Established in 1967 by playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer/actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald S...

 and was often cast as professional and/or highly educated people such as doctors and clergymen.

One of his best remembered roles was as "Jared Philibert," the 50-year-old patriarch of a Caribbean-American family in steve carter's

Steve Carter (playwright)

Horace E. "Steve" Carter, Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his plays involving Caribbean immigrants living in the United States.-Biography:...

 critically acclaimed play, Nevis Mountain Dew. He originated the role in NEC's Off-Broadway production and reprised the role in the West Coast premiere of the play. For the latter he received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards is an annual awards program presented by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle . Established in 1969, the awards recognize excellence in theatre in the Greater Los Angeles Area....

 for his performance.

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Theatre(s)	Notes
1963	Hamlet Hamlet The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...	Horatio	Minnesota Theater Company
1968	Weekend	Dr. Hampton	Broadhurst Theatre Broadhurst Theatre The Broadhurst Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan.It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, a well-known theatre designer who had been working directly with the Shubert brothers; the Broadhurst opened 27 September 1917...
	The Man in the Glass Booth	Sam	Royale Theatre Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 242 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it opened as the Royale Theatre on January 11, 1927 with a musical entitled Piggy...
1971	Behold! Cometh the Vanderkellans	Dr. Vanderkellans	Theatre de Lys Lucille Lortel Theatre The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.The venue was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse...
1972	The River Niger The River Niger The River Niger is a play by American playwright, Joseph A. Walker, first performed by New York City's Negro Ensemble Company off-Broadway in 1972. The production made its Broadway debut with a transfer to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 27 March 1973 for a run of 162 performances.-Characters :*...	Dr. Dudley Stanton	St. Mark's Playhouse Brooks Atkinson Theatre Brooks Atkinson Theatre The Brooks Atkinson Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 256 West 47th Street in Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was constructed as the Mansfield Theatre by the Chanin brothers in 1926. After 1933, the theatre fell into relative disuse until 1945, when Michael Myerberg...	Originally an Off-Broadway production that was transferred to Broadway.
1975	Black Picture Show	Norman	Vivian Beaumont Theatre Vivian Beaumont Theatre The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a theatre located in the Lincoln Center complex at 150 West 65th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The structure was designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen, and Jo Mielziner was responsible for the design of the stage and interior.The Vivian...
1976	Eden Eden (play) Eden is a 1976 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set in the 1920s, it is the first of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Eden explores intra-racial conflicts between recent immigrants from the Caribbean and the African-American population...	Joseph Barton	St. Mark's Playhouse Theatre de Lys Lucille Lortel Theatre The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.The venue was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse...	Transferred to Theatre de Lys Lucille Lortel Theatre The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.The venue was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse...  on May 14, 1976.
	Kings	Tiresias in "Oedipus Oedipus Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family... "	Alvin Theatre
1978	Nevis Mountain Dew Nevis Mountain Dew Nevis Mountain Dew is a 1978 play by American playwright steve carter . Set in the 1950s, it is the second of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Nevis Mountain Dew explores the subject of euthanasia involving the patriarch of an affluent family who is confined to an iron lung.-Characters:Jared Philibert:...	Jared Philibert	St. Mark's Playhouse
1980	Lagrima del Diablo	Archbishop Stephen Emmanuel Pontiflax	St. Mark's Playhouse
1981	Nevis Mountain Dew Nevis Mountain Dew Nevis Mountain Dew is a 1978 play by American playwright steve carter . Set in the 1950s, it is the second of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. Nevis Mountain Dew explores the subject of euthanasia involving the patriarch of an affluent family who is confined to an iron lung.-Characters:Jared Philibert:...	Jared Philibert	Los Angeles Actors Theatre	Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards is an annual awards program presented by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle . Established in 1969, the awards recognize excellence in theatre in the Greater Los Angeles Area.... , Lead Performance
1985	Ceremonies in Dark Old Men	William Jenkins	Theatre Four
1989	The Talented Tenth	Father/ Sam Griggs	Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1984	The Muppets Take Manhattan The Muppets Take Manhattan The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets, and also the final film before Henson's death. This film was produced by Henson Associates and TriStar Pictures, and was filmed on location in New York City during the summer of...	Mr. Wrightson
1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	Dr. Frischer
1992	Malcolm X	Dr. Payson
1994	Blues in C	Bucky Webb
1995	Clockers	Mr. Herman Brown

External links

• Graham Brown at the Internet Theatre Database