Amari Cheatom

Off Broadway—Signature Theatre: Zooman and the Sign; The Public Theater: The Lower Ninth, The Book of Grace; Sundance Theatre Festival: Origin Story; When January Feels like Summer; New Federal Theatre: The Toilet; A Ballad of Sad Young Men; Age of Grace. Regional—True Colors Theatre: Cracking Zeus, Fetch Clay Make Man; Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta. The Juilliard School—The Winter’s Tale (King Leontes), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Bynum Walker), King Lear (Edmund the Bastard), Beau Willimon’s War Story (Sean), St. James Infirmary (Banner). Film—The Mikki Howard Story, Deeper Than Blue, The Alchemist Cookbook; Newlyweeds (Shaka King); Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino); Knucklehead (Ben Bowman); Night Catches Us (dir. Tanya Hamilton, with Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington); Disparity of Forces. TV—Numbers (CBS), Chase, Detroit 187 (ABC), Georgetown (ABC).

Previous DPT Work

Detroit ‘67 — Season One