- The Taming of the Shrew, New York Shakespeare Festival, East River Park Amphitheater, New York City, 1956.
- Soothsayer and Pindarus, Julius Caesar, New York Shakespeare Festival, East River Park Amphitheater, 1956.
- Aaron, Titus Andronicus, New York Shakespeare Festival, Theatre of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1957.
- Cothurnus, Aria da Capo, Theatre Marquee, New York City, 1958.
- Understudy for title role, Othello, New York Shakespeare Festival, Belvedere Lake Theatre, New York City, 1958.
- Royal Baron, The Cool World, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1960.
- Understudy for title role, Purlie Victorious, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1961.
- Archibald Wellington, The Blacks: A Clown Show, St. Mark's Playhouse, New York City, 1961–62.
- Corporal, General Seeger, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1962.
- Deacon Sitter Morris, Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1962–63.
- Fool, King Lear, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1962.
- Brecht on Brecht (revue), Theatre de Lys, now Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1962, then Arena Stage, Washington, DC, performed as a staged reading at Sheridan Square Playhouse, New York City, and at Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, all 1963.
- Autolycus, The Winter's Tale, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1963.
- Narrator, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1963.
- Street singer, The Threepenny Opera, Arena Stage, 1963.
- Babu, Benito Cereno, American Place Theatre, New York City, beginning 1963, later produced as part of a double-bill titled The Old Glory, Theatre of St. Clement's Church, New York City, 1964.
- Hell Is Other People (readings), Theatre at Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1964.
- Male lead, The Empty Room, Village South Theatre, New York City, 1964.
- St. Just, Danton's Death, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1965.
- Ulysses, Troilus and Cressida, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1965.
- Beyond the Fringe, Goodspeed Opera House, East Had-dam, CT, 1966.
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- Babu, Benito Cereno, Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, OH, 1966.
- The gardener, Sodom and Gomorrah, Playhouse in the Park, 1966.
- Mendoza, Man and Superman, Playhouse in the Park, 1966.
- Sheridan Whiteside, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1966.
- An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1966; produced as A Hand Is on the Gate, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1966; revived at Afro-American Studio, New York City, 1976–77.
- Mosca, Volpone, New York Shakespeare Festival, Mobile Theatre, New York City, 1967.
- Makak, The Dream on Monkey Mountain, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1970, then St. Mark's Playhouse, 1971.
- A Rap on Race, New Theatre for Now, Los Angeles, 1971–72.
- As You Like It, Pilgrimage Theatre, Los Angeles, 1973.
- Ephraim Cabot, Desire Under the Elms, Academy Festival Theatre, Chicago, 1974.
- Behind the Broken Words (poetry reading), With Anthony Zerbe. Washington Theatre Club, Washington, DC, 1974, revived at American Place Theatre, 1981, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO, 2002.
- Babu, Benito Cereno, American Place Theatre, 1976.
- Albert Perez Jordan, Remembrance, New York Shakespeare Festival, Other Stage, Public Theatre, New York City, 1979.
- Pantomime, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 1981–82.
- Right Reverend J. D. Montgomery, My One and Only, St. James Theatre, New York City, 1983–84.
- M. Noirtier, The Count of Monte Cristo, Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1985.
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, 1989, then Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989–90.
- Holloway, Two Trains Running, Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1991, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1992.
- House of Flowers, as Roscoe Lee Brown. City Center Encores!, City Center Theatre, New York City, 2003.
- Balthazar, Romeo and Juliet, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York cities, 1957.
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