When you catch up with an artist as talented and as creative and accomplished as Colman Domingo, you don?t want to waste too many questions on the frivolous. Still, his bio reads ?born and raised in West Philadelphia? and I just happened to have a certain The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air T.V show theme going on in my head as I talk to him.
?Yes, Will Smith and I went to high school together,? smiles Domingo. ?That?s a little-known fact. Will was one class ahead of me, but we shared the same gym class. It?s a small world, isn?t it??
Domingo, an accomplished actor, playwright, and director, talked to The Madison Times on the phone from Virginia where he was shooting a movie with Steven Spielberg about Abraham Lincoln that will be released in 2012. Domingo will be in town on Nov. 21 as part of ?Stew & Friends,? a University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Institutes free public series where every week students get up close and personal with award-winning national artists on the cutting edge of Broadway, theater, cabaret, rock, jazz, and film.