Derrick Lee Weeden

AEA Member
Derrick Lee Weeden

Magwitch and Ensemble in Great Expectations; Polonius in Hamlet

In 22 seasons at OSF: Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra; Faria in The Count of Monte Cristo; Roy Wilkins in All the Way; Elesin in Death and the King’s Horseman; Caesar in Gem of the Ocean; Prospero in The Tempest; The Count de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac; Leonard Charteris in The Philanderer; Vincent Baptiste in Mothers Against; Kwesi Ntuli in Daughters of the Revolution [Continental Divide] (OSF, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Repertory/U.K., The Barbican/U.K., La Jolla Playhouse); Brutus in Julius Caesar; Aaron in Titus Andronicus; Vershinin in Three Sisters; Othello in Othello; Hedley in Seven Guitars; Tshembe Matoseh in Les Blancs; Duke in Measure for Measure; Edmond in King Lear; Coriolanus in Coriolanus; Bolingbroke in Richard II; Leonardo in Blood Wedding; Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Warwick in The Conclusion of Henry VI; Pericles in Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Ashland, Portland); Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; among others. 

Other theatres: Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), Seattle Repertory Theatre, PCPA-Solvang, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Great Lakes Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. 

Education: MFA, Southern Methodist University.