Carl Cofield is the Chair of Graduate Acting at New York University. He was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Off-Broadway award winning Classical Theatre of Harlem in 2018. For CTH he has directed: Seize the King (New York Times Critic’s Pick) The Bacchae ****(New York Times Critic’s Pick), Antigone, Macbeth, The Tempest and Dutchman.
He directed the award-winning world premiere of Kemp Power’s One Night in Miami for Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles, Miami New Drama and Denver Center. Other regional credits include King Lear (Starring Andre DeSheilds) for St. Louis Shakespeare. A Raisin in the Sun and Afro-futuristic Twelfth Night at Yale Rep, Henry IV at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Disgraced at Denver Center, The Mountaintop at Cleveland Play House, August Wilson’s Radio Golf at Everyman Theatre and many others.
For the McCarter Theatre, he collaborated with seven playwrights: Nathan Alan Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Dipika Guha, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Emily Mann, and Regina Taylor, and directed The Princeton and Slavery Plays.
Honors include an N.A.A.C.P theater award, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and many AUDELCO nominations.
As an actor, his work has been seen at The Manhattan Theater Club (Ruined), Berkeley Rep, Alliance, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Intiman, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Milwaukee Rep, Alabama Shakespeare, The McCarter, The Acting Company, Studio Theatre and many others.