{{Short description|Canadian actor and playwright}} {{Infobox person | name = Joseph Jomo Pierre | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Birth-date and age|Month DD, YYYY}} --> | birth_place = Trinidad and Tobago | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = Joseph Pierre | occupation = Actor, playwright | known_for = ''Shakespeare's Nigga'' }}
'''Joseph Jomo Pierre''', also credited as '''Joseph Pierre''', is a Trinidadian-Canadian actor and playwright.<ref name=globe>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/qa-joseph-jomo-pierre-on-hip-hop-and-shakespeare/article8385855/ "Q&A: Joseph Jomo Pierre on hip-hop and Shakespeare"]. ''The Globe and Mail'', February 8, 2013.</ref> He is best known for his 2013 play ''Shakespeare's Nigga'', a play which explored racism by recontextualizing two Moorish characters from the plays of William Shakespeare, Aaron from ''Titus Andronicus'' and Othello from ''Othello'', as slaves actually owned by Shakespeare in real life.<ref>[http://www.nowtoronto.com/stage/story.cfm?content=191180 "Shakespeare's Nigga"]. ''NOW'', February 14, 2013.</ref> The play was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2013 Governor General's Awards.<ref name=announced>[https://vancouversun.com/news/Governor+General+Literary+Award+finalists+announced+updated/8987740/story.html "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced"]{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''Vancouver Sun'', October 2, 2013.</ref> His prior plays include ''Born Ready'', ''BeatDown'' and ''Pusha-Man'',<ref name=globe /> all of which were published by Playwrights Canada Press in the anthology ''BeatDown: Three Plays'' in 2006.<ref>[http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/beatdown-three-plays.html ''Beatdown: Three Plays'']. Playwrights Canada Press.</ref>
As an actor, he is best known for roles as Edward Forrest in ''Intelligence'' and as nurse Jackson Wade in ''Saving Hope'', and appeared in supporting roles in the films ''Take the Lead'', ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story'' and ''Get Rich or Die Tryin'''.
==Plays== *''Born Ready a.k.a. Black on Both Sides'' (2006) *''BeatDown a.k.a. Life'' (2006) *''Pusha-Man a.k.a. The Seed'' (2006) *''Shakespeare's Nigga'' (2013)
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.josephjomopierre.com/home/index.html}} *{{IMDb name|0682641}}
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