Artist

Jeffrey Blair Cornell

You Can’t Take It With You: Boris Kolenkhov

Primary Trust: Clay/Sam

Macbeth: Duncan / Siward

Resident Company Member

PlayMakers: Jeff is celebrating his 31st consecutive season acting with PlayMakers. Recently: Bullock in A Good Boy (with Hidden Voices), Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Eddie in The Legend of Georgia McBride, Polonius/Gravedigger in Hamlet, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Father in Ragtime, Uncle Peck in How I Learned to Drive, Sipos in She Loves Me, and Darren (the Woodchuck) in Bewilderness. Some favorites: Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Caliban in The Tempest, Elyot in Private Lives, Father Flynn in Doubt, Henry in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Matamore in The Illusion, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Vanya in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike, and Herr Schultz in Cabaret.

New York: Two by Two, Down to Earth, Serious Business.

Regional: Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, among others.

Education/Other: Carbonell Award nominations for Best Actor – Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and Falsettoland (Caldwell Theatre – FL). Studied at HB Studios in New York with Uta Hagen, Austin Pendleton, and Elizabeth Wilson and received his MFA from the PATP/UNC-Chapel Hill. Recently retired from UNC’s  Department of Dramatic Art, he currently serves as Visiting Lecturer.

Shows at PlayMakers