Artist

Jeffrey Blair Cornell

Resident Company Member

PlayMakers: Jeff is celebrating his 31st consecutive season acting with PlayMakers. Recently:  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, Matamore in The Illusion, Sam Byck in Assassins, 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. Serves as Teaching Professor/Associate Chair in UNC’s Department of Dramatic Art.

Shows at PlayMakers