Frank Wood

Frank Wood (born May 6, 1960) is an American actor who has appeared in various television, film, and theatre roles.

Early life and education Wood is the son of Margaret (Byers) and Robert Coldwell Wood, a political scientist who briefly served as United States secretary of housing and urban development in the Lyndon Johnson administration. His sister is U.S. senator and former governor of New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan. Wood attended the Buxton School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1984 and a MFA from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Career Wood won a Tony Award in 1999 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Side Man. He played Bill in August: Osage County on Broadway. From September 14, 2010, to March 27, 2011, Wood starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America staged by the Signature Theatre Company in Manhattan. Wood played Gary Lucas in Greetings from Tim Buckley, a film on Tim and Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2016, Wood played the Night Clerk in Eugene O'Neill's play Hughie opposite Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in New York City, directed by Michael Grandage.

Wood is on the faculty of HB Studio in New York City.

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage + Year Title Role Notes 1990 The Last Good Day of Lily Baker Bob Baker People's Light and Theatre Company 1998 Side Man Gene Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway 2000 Light Up the Sky Owen Turner Williamstown Theatre Festival 2001 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz Long Wharf Theatre 2001 The Wax Christopher Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway 2002 Hollywood Arms Jody Cort Theatre, Broadway 2005 Hamlet Player King McCarter Theatre 2005 Three Sisters Vershinin American Repertory Theater 2005 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Azdak South Coast Repertory 2006 The Rainmaker File Arena Stage 2006 Spring Awakening Adult Men Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway 2007 Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Family Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway 2008 August: Osage County Bill Fordham (Replacement) Imperial Theatre, Broadway 2009 Three Sisters Baron Tuzenbach Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 2011 Angels in America Roy Cohn Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway 2011 Born Yesterday Ed Devery Cort Theatre, Broadway 2011 King Lear Duke of Cornwall The Public Theater, Off-Broadway 2012 Clybourne Park Russ/Dan Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway 2013 A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney Roy Disney Soho Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway 2014 Marjorie Prime Jon Mark Taper Forum 2015 The Nether Sims Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway 2016 Signature Plays Daddy Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway 2016 Hughie Night Clerk Booth Theatre, Broadway 2016 The Babylon Line Jack Hassenpflug Lincoln Center Theater Off-Broadway 2017 Can You Forgive Her? David Vineyard Theatre, Off-Broadway 2017 In The Blood Doctor Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway 2017 Tartuffe Orgon Huntington Theatre Company 2018 The Iceman Cometh Cecil Lewis Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway 2018 Network Nelson Chaney Belasco Theatre, Broadway 2019 A Human Being, Of A Sort William Temple Hornaday Williamstown Theatre Festival 2019 The Great Society Sen. Everett Dirksen/Deke DeLoach/Colonel Al Lingo/Clark Clifford Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 2020 The Perplexed Joseph Manhattan Theatre Club, Off-Broadway 2023 The Best We Could Lou New York City Center, Off-Broadway 2023 Toros Tica Second Stage Theater, Off-Broadway 2024 The Meeting: The Interpreter The Interpreter Theatre at St. Clements, Off-Broadway 2024 Hold On to Me Darling Mitch Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off-Broadway 2026 Indian Princesses Greg Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway