Ruben Santiago-Hudson

On stage 5 productions, 34 years

1992	Jelly’s Last Jam Virginia Theatre · Original · directed by George C. Wolfe	569 perf.
1996	Seven Guitars Walter Kerr Theatre · Original · directed by Lloyd Richards	188 perf.
2004	Gem of the Ocean Walter Kerr Theatre · Original · directed by Kenny Leon	72 perf.
2011	Stick Fly Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Kenny Leon	93 perf.
2026	Joe Turner's Come and Gone Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Revival	105 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in. That is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once2 names

Phylicia Rashad	2 productions
Keith David	2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership. A long-running company puts the same forty people together every night, but it is where one would start looking.

What this page does not know

• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
• Any biography.
• Any portrait. Most people in this catalogue don't have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record (actor) apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.