Grantham Coleman

About

Grantham Coleman is an American actor. He studied drama at The Juilliard School, graduating in 2011.

Coleman made one of his first professional appearances on stage in 2012, playing Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He then had a minor role in a production of As You Like It directed by Daniel J. Sullivan at the Shakespeare in the Park festival at the Delacorte Theater in New York. Later that year he appeared in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present… at the Soho Repertory Theatre. In 2013, Coleman played Anthony Justin (“AJ”) James in an off-Broadway production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy at the Manhattan Theatre Club. A year later he reprised the role in a Geffen Playhouse production in Los Angeles. Also in 2013, he appeared in the two-hander One Night… by Charles Fuller at the Cherry Lane Theater alongside Rutina Wesley. He appeared in Buzzer in 2015, a production by Anne Kauffman at The Public Theater in New York.
Coleman played the title role in Hamlet in 2017 at the Old Globe, directed by Barry Edelstein. He would later reprise the role in 2021 when Edelstein brought the case back…