Mary Stuart

ROBERT JASON JACKSON makes his Chicago Shakespeare debut. Other Chicago credits include The Road and Death and the King’s Horseman (Goodman Theatre).  Favorite roles include: Othello (DCPA Theatre Company), Polonius in Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre Company), and Bolingbroke in Richard II (NAACP Best Actor nomination, Mark Taper Forum). Broadway credits include Amonasro in Aida (Palace Theatre) and Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off-Broadway credits include: A Soldier’s Play (Second Stage Theater); The Merchant of Venice, The Treatment (Public Theater); The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Playwrights Horizons); and Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre). Regional credits include: The Greeks (Hartford Stage); Macbeth (Guthrie Theater); Anouilh’s Antigone and Mourning Becomes Electra (Quintessence Theatre Group). Television and film credits include: guest-starring roles on Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, Feds, New York Undercover, New Jersey Drive, and Altamont. Mr. Jackson is a graduate of Northwestern University (BA) and Temple University (MFA).

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