ANTHONY CHISHOLM (Solly Two Kings) continues his journey with Gem of the Ocean from the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (LA Ovation Award and NAACP Theatre Award). He previously appeared on the Huntington stage as Wolf in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running which continued on to Broadway. More recently he was seen with the Huntington in August Wilson’s Jitney as Fielding, a role he also played Off Broadway (winner of the 2000 Obie, Drama Desk, and AUDELCO Awards), at the Mark Taper Forum (NAACP and Ovation Awards), and at the Royal National Theatre in London (2002 Olivier Award for Best Play). Mr. Chisholm appeared in the Off Broadway productions of The Talented Tenth (Manhattan Theatre Club); Tracers, Ice Bridges, and Black Visions (The Joseph Papp Public Theater); and King Lear (New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park). Other theatre credits include The Mighty Gents, Back in the World (AUDELCO nomination), Melvin Van Peebles’ Ain’t Supposed To Die a Natural Death (first national tour), and Charles Gordone’s No Place to Be Somebody, as well as the overseas productions of Tracers at London’s Royal Court Theatre and in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Regional theatre credits include I Am A Man (Goodman Theatre), I Just Stopped By to See the Man (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Denver Center Theatre Company, The Cleveland Play House), Fences (Indiana Repertory Theatre) and Driving Miss Daisy (Portland Stage). His film and television credits include Jules Dassin’s Uptight, Langhorne in Beloved, “100 Center Street” (Emmy consideration), “Hack” (recurring role), “Law & Order: SVU,” “Vietnam War Stories” (Cable Ace nomination), “Third Watch,” “NY Undercover,” and HBO’s “Oz” as series regular Burr Redding.