Wain Jenkins and Ola Raphel for G Concepts

Wain Jenkins is an actor/model residing in the DMV area.   More than ten years ago, he successfully auditioned for the first time in his life for the opera "Porgy and Bess" for the Washington National Opera at the John F. Kennedy Center/ Opera House.  He performed16 perfomances as the Crap Shooter in front of a packed house of nearly 3,000 people.  With that confidence he went on to roles in commercials, stage plays, films, and on television.

Stage roles include Davey Battle in “Take Me Out”, at The Gunston Theatre One, in Arlington, VA, Det. Kendall Martin in “Am I My Brother’s Keeper”, at The 14th Street Playhouse in Atlanta, GA for the Atlanta Black Theater Festival, Bubby in “Sins of the Father”, Josh in “The Do Drop In”, Doaker in “The Piano Lesson”, Joshua in “Getting My Piece of the Pie”, all stage plays by Southern Gal Productions at The Public Playhouse, in Landover, MD, Jim Bono in “Fences” at the Studio Theater, “Henry Johnson” in “Snap Honey” at the Complex Theater in Los Angeles, CA, and “Allen” in “Tensions” for OTC Productions in Baltimore.

Featured Superluminary roles for the Wash National Opera at the Kennedy Center Opera House in DC. include “Porgy and Bess”, “Iphigenie en Tauride” with Placido Domingo, “Nabucco”, “La Boheme”, “Force of Destiny”, “Tosca”, “Appomattox” (2015), “Aida” and “Dead Man Walking”.

 Film work includes The Security Officer in “The Touchstone” (2012), Spectator in “Creed”, staring Sylvester Stallone (2015), Coach in “Deviance”, directed and produced by Jimmy Hennigan. (2016), Church Goer in “Almost Christmas” with Danny Glover and Gabrielle Union (2016), Choir Member in “Last Flag Flying” with Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carrell (2017), Construction Worker in “All Square” with Michael Kelly (2018), Protester in “Miss Virginia” with Uzo Aduba and Vanessa Williams (2019), Passerby in “12 O’Clock Boys” (2019), and Subway Rider in “17 Bridges” with Chadwick Boseman (2019), UGRR Passenger in “Harriet” (2019) with Cynthia Erivo/Leslie Odum, Jr.

Commercials include ,“Elevator Rider” in Dominion Power Commercial (2015), “Patient” in Peter T. Nicholl Commercial (1016), “Doctor” in Trusted Health Plan Commercial (2016), “Roll The Dice” for Boeing (2017), Home Depot (2016), University of Maryland College (2016); Weis Grocery Stores (2017), UVA Cancer Research (2018), and Hilton Hotels (2018)

Television work includes Netflix “House of Cards” Season 1 2,3, and 5, HBO “Veep” Seasons 2, 3, and 4 with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, ID Channel “Evil Kin”, 2013, “Deadly Affairs” and “Who the Bleep Did I Marry” 2014, TV One “For My Man” 2015 (Police Officer), (Wayne- The Father) 2016, Epi. 316 2017, Netflix “Mindhunters” (Airplane Passenger) episode 7 in 2017, CBS- “Madam Secretary” (Businessman) with Tea Leone and Bebe Neuwirth in May 2017, “Almost Spies” (Damon Freese) 2018; and Showtime “Homeland” (ER Doctor) 2018