Donovan Rogers builds Black equity in the arts as a multidisciplinary performer, playwright and producing-director on stage and screen. As a 2024 graduate of University of Michigan’s BFA: Acting, hailing from the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, he earned multiple Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival awards for his choreopoem, Into the Light of the Dark, Black Night; fabling heartbroken Black men as blackbirds relearning to fly. As Founder and Producing Artistic Director of The DR's Laboratory LLC, Donovan develops community-centered research, creative methodologies, and theatre & film that actualizes Black imagination. He will star in his new, coming-of-age musical, Cornrows, in an Off-Broadway reading at The Tank May 2027. Credits: Dominique Morisseau’s Bad Kreyol (Playwright Associate: Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Maleek Rae’s Guttah II (Lead Actor: Hi-ARTS), and supporting vocals on tour with Josh Groban and Michael Bublé. Instagram: @Donovanrogers_
