Teagle F. Bougere
Broadway: The Tempest (Caliban) with Patrick Stewart, A Raisin In The Sun (Asagai) with Phylicia Rashad, and The Crucible directed by Ivo van Hove. London, West End: “Debate, Baldwin vs Buckley” (James Baldwin). Selected television and film: Queen America (series regular) with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Law & Order SVU (Phillip Baptiste/recurring), The Blacklist, Bull, The Mist, The Path, Cosby, The Big C, The Job, A Gifted Man, Conviction, What The Deaf Man Heard, eight episodes for the various Law & Order franchises. Film: Night At The Museum, The Pelican Brief, Two Weeks Notice, and The Imposters. Selected Off-Broadway includes The New Englanders, Manhattan Theater Club (AUDELCO Award - Lead Actor in a Play); The Beast In the Jungle, Vineyard Theater, directed by Susan Stroman; Is God Is, Soho Rep; A Last Dance For Sybil by Ossie Davis, starring Ruby Dee; and Coriolanus at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Coriolanus was Mr. Bougere’s 13th appearance with the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Past turns at the festival include Plato in Socrates; Casca in Julius Caesar; and Eros in Antony and Cleopatra, directed by and starring Vanessa Redgrave. Regionally Teagle created the title role in the world premiere stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. The production played at Court Theatre in Chicago, Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Huntington Theatre. At the Pittsburgh Public Theater, he played The Poet in the one-man show An Iliad. For five seasons (1990-95), he was a member of the resident acting company at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. For Jay.
