about edwin lee gibson

A self-described “theatre rat,” Gibson began performing professionally at 16 and has since appeared in over 100 productions. He earned a 2006 OBIE Award for Outstanding Performance for his radical portrayal of Oedipus in The Seven at New York Theatre Workshop—a role critics could not forget:

• “Most spectacularly, there’s Edwin Lee Gibson’s Oedipus, an outrageous, comically toxic blend of Superfly, B.B. King, and Al Jolson.” — Village Voice

• “Mr. Gibson’s Oedipus is the show’s presiding spirit: smooth of tongue, limber of leg and always in your face.” — The New York Times

International acclaim followed when he was invited by the late Peter Brook to join his legendary company in residence at London’s National Theatre Studio and Paris’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

His layered, genre-defying work has been profiled by The New York Times, Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, and The Washington Post. Of his current role, The Wall Street Journal wrote:

“Then someone like the meat chef Ebraheim (a terrific Edwin Lee Gibson) says something dryly hilarious and the pressure is released from the cooker.”

Off-stage, Gibson has written and performed in nationally commissioned solo works, contributed to The Moth, and written multiple pilots and screenplays. He is an alum of the Sony Pictures Television Writing Program and a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actor’s Equity, and New York Theatre Workshop’s Usual Suspects.