Roscoe Orman

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Roscoe Hunter Orman (born June 11, 1944) is an American actor, writer, artist and child advocate, best known for playing Gordon Robinson, one of the central human characters on Sesame Street.

While a student at New York City’s High School of Art and Design, Orman made his theatrical debut in the 1962 topical revue “If We Grow Up.” He was an early member of the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans for two years in the mid-1960s and a founding member of Robert Macbeth’s New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, NY, where he both acted in and directed several plays by NLT’s playwright-in-residence, Ed Bullins. His many other stage appearances have included roles in “Julius Caesar” and “Coriolanus” at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, the Broadway production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fences”, Manhattan Theatre Club’s stagings of Richard Wesley’s “The Sirens”, “The Last Street Play”, and “The Talented Tenth”, and Matt Robinson’s one-man play The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit at the American Place Theatre.

Orman is the recipient of two Audelco Theatre Awards and a five-time nominee. –Wikipedia

NFT Credits

Credit Type Production Season
Actor Twenty Year Friends 1983-84 Season
Actor Do Lord Remember Me (1997) 1996-97 Season
Actor The Fabulous Miss Marie 2013-14 Season
Actor Do Lord Remember Me (2020) 2020-21 Season