Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (September 18–October 12)

In three seasons at OSF: Will Parker in Oklahoma!; Ed Knight/Isaac Jaggard in The Book of Will; Mark Antony in Julius Caesar; Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; The Wiz in The Wiz; Player Queen in Hamlet.Other theatres: Broadway: Tristan in The Inheritance (2020 Tony Winner, Best Play); Standby for multiple roles in Come From Away; NY/Off-Broadway: Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (TFANA); Spencer in Vertebrae (NYTW); Countee Cullen in Langston in Harlem (Urban Stages); Quinapalus/Zachary in The Deepest Play Ever (CollaborationTown); Regional: 86’d (Diversionary Theater); All the Way, The 12 (Denver Center); Macbeth, To Kill a Mockingbird (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Rent (Sacramento Music Circus, Syracuse Stage); Stormy Weather (Pasadena Playhouse); The Who’s Tommy (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Yellowman, Hair, Topdog/Underdog, Yeast Nation (Perseverance Theatre); Chimerica (Studio Theatre). Tour: Come From Away, Peter Brooks’ The Suit, The Shipment (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia). Barbour has also written and starred in two solo shows: This African-American Life and I Definitely Need Therapy, both of which premiered at OSF. Barbour voices Black Panther in Marvel’s Mech Strike animated series.