A Boy and His Soul

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Where do you get SOUL From watching your parents sell the house you grew up in From discovering the family secret about your crazy cousin Or from the childhood records found in your parents basement From Stevie, Aretha, Marvin, Chaka, Barry, Gladysand Colman. Propelled by the beat of classic soul, smooth R&B and disco, this is the soundtrack of a boys coming of age in 70s and 80s Philadelphia. A Boy and His Soul was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award Best Solo Show, GLAAD Media Award Best Play On or Off Broadway and the ITBA Best Solo Show awards.

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Colman Domingo is the author of Wild with Happy (Dramatists Play Service), A Boy and His Soul, Up Jumped Springtime, and The Brothers. The artistic work of Mr. Domingo has been honored with a Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League nomination. His work has won the OBIE, Lucille Lortel, GLAAD, Connecticut Critics Circle, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle and Internet Theater Bloggers Award. Colman has received fellowships and/or residencies from The Sundance Theater Lab, The Peoples Light and Theater Company, and the Banff Playwrights Colony. Mr. Domingo is currently under commission from The American Conservatory Theater. His plays have been produced at The Public Theater, The Vineyard Theater, Theatreworks, Philadelphia Theater Company, Baltimore Centerstage, The Tricycle Theater (London), Theater Rhinoceros and Thick Description Theater. Mr. Domingo as an actor has starred on Broadway in Passing Strange, Chicago, Well and The Scottsboro Boys and has worked in films such as Lee Daniels The Butler, Lincoln, Red Hook Summer, Passing Strange, Miracle at St. Ana, King of the Bingo Game and Newlyweeds among others.