Jacob Ming-Trent is an American film, television and stage actor based in New Jersey.
Credits
Merry Wives (2022)
Character: Falstaff
Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece from the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Set in South Harlem, the play tells the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vitality.
The Snakes (2021)
Character: Timmy
Set in an alternate future where Roe v. Wade has been overturned, a depressed Black woman, deals with the culture of fear by channeling her rage into violent fantasies.
Reopening Night (2021)
Character: Self
This documentary follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater as they prepare to mount an all-black adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives,” at the open-air Delacorte Theater in New York City. Contending with the ever-present threat of COVID-19 and one of the rainiest Julys on record, the production marks the return of live theatre following more than a year of closures in the city.
The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)
Character: Lamont
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)
Character: Tom Stout
A recording of Julie Taymor's New York stage production of William Shakespeare's comedy.
R♥️J (2021)
Character: Lawrence
Told entirely through social media and smartphone screens, this bold adaptation of Romeo and Juliet reinvents the world’s most enduring love story with style and lyricism, with black and brown youth at the heart of it all.
SuperFly (2018)
Character: Frederick "Fat Freddie" Davis
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
Friendship (2025)
Character: Nathan
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.
The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
Character: Ernie
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Finding Julia (2019)
Character: Scott
An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.
Shrek the Musical (2013)
Character: Papa Ogre / Straw
Put out of his swamp solitude by a wicked tyrant's order, grumpy ogre Shrek goes on a journey – accompanied by a chatterbox donkey – to retrieve a beautiful princess from a tower, unaware that she has secrets all her own.
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