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Cobb’s “American Moor”: Playing Othello in the 21st century

Cobb’s “American Moor”: Playing Othello in the 21st century

BY MIRANDA WHEELER ’19

Award-winning actor and playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb has accumulated a variety of impressive credits over the course of his screen and stage career, but none quite like “American Moor.” The self-written and largely self-performed play explores Cobb’s relationship as a black man in America to Shakespeare’s tragic protagonist Othello.