Joseph Jomo Pierre

Joseph Jomo Pierre, also credited as Joseph Pierre, is a Trinidadian-Canadian actor and playwright. He is best known for his 2013 play "Shakespeare's Nigga", a play which explored racism by recontextualizing two Moorish characters from the plays of William Shakespeare, Aaron from "Titus Andronicus" and Othello from "Othello", as slaves actually owned by Shakespeare in real life. The play was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2013 Governor General's Awards. His prior plays include "Born Ready", "BeatDown" and "Pusha-Man", all of which were published by Playwrights Canada Press in the anthology "BeatDown: Three Plays" in 2006.
As an actor, he is best known for roles as Edward Forrest in "Intelligence" and as nurse Jackson Wade in "Saving Hope", and appeared in supporting roles in the films "Take the Lead", ' and "Get Rich or Die Tryin.