SAHARA production notes FINAL

acclaimed CBS drama “Profoundly Normal,” starred as Clarence Thomas in the Peabody
Award winner, “Strange Justice,” directed by Ernest Dickerson and co-starring Regina
Taylor, Louis Gossett, Jr., Paul Winfield and Mandy Patinkin. He also portrayed baseball
legend Satchel Paige in the stirring sports drama, “Soul of the Game.” Lindo also played
Arctic explorer Matthew Henson in “Glory and Honor”(TNT) and appeared in “First
Time Felon”(HBO).
On Broadway, Lindo appeared in August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,”
for which he received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, “Master Harold and
the Boys” (Broadway & National Tour) and the Kennedy Center and Los Angeles
productions of “A Raisin in the Sun” (Helen Hayes Award Nomination and NAACP
Image Award Best Actor). Lindo has also worked Off-Broadway and extensively in
regional theaters throughout the United States and Canada.
Also for television, Lindo conceived, directed, hosted, and produced “Delroy Lindo
on Spike Lee,” “Delroy Lindo in Conversations with Charles Burnett,” and “Delroy Lindo
and Joan Chen: A Conversation.”
WILLIAM H. MACY (Admiral Sandecker) is currently in production on
“Edmond,” an adaptation of the David Mamet play, directed by Stuart Gordon and
produced by Muse Films. He also recently joined the cast of “Thank You for Smoking,”
an independent film based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, which also stars Aaron
Eckhart, Robert Duvall, and Katie Holmes. Jason Reitman will direct.
Most recently, Macy starred in TNT’s “The Wool Cap,” a new take on the 1962
comedy “Gigot.” Macy co-wrote the updated film with his writing partner Steven
Schachter, who also directed the film. Macy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award
and a SAG Award for his performance, he and Schachter were nominated for a Writers
Guild Award, and the film was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award.
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