Reynaldo Piniella is an actor, writer, director, and educator from East New York, Brooklyn.
In 2021, he was in the acting company of two Broadway shows at the same time: Thoughts of a Colored Man and Trouble in Mind. As a playwright, his work includes Black Doves (Thomas Barbour Award), Let Us Sit Upon the Ground (produced by Vanderbilt University), Real Life RPG (commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage, produced by San Diego Rep), No Shade (produced by the Lee Strasberg Institute), I’m Old School (produced by Single Carrot Theater), No History (Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor), and Black and Blue (Ars Nova’s ANT Fest).
He is an alum of New Victory Theater’s LabWorks, All for One Theater’s Solo Collective, the Civilians’ R&D Group, and a former artist-in-residence at Hi-ARTS, the cell theatre, Abingdon Theatre Company, HB Studio and Culture Lab LIC. He has received fellowships from TCG, NALAC, Weeksville Heritage Center, FORGE NYC, and the All Stars Project.
His Off-Broadway acting credits include work at Signature, The Public, the Working Theater, TFANA, and Rattlestick. Regionally he has worked with Baltimore Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, the O’Neill, Cleveland Play House, NY Stage and Film, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, and Actors Theatre of Louisville, and internationally with the Sundance Theatre Lab in Morocco and NEAP Fest in Rio de Janeiro. On television, his credits include “Reservation Dogs,” “Sneaky Pete,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Carrie Diaries,” “Flesh & Bone,” “Blue Bloods,” “Greenleaf,” “Louie,” “NYC 22,” “Us & Them” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
