Jefferson Mays has appeared at the Geffen Playhouse in A Christmas Carol which took home eight 2020 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards including Best Production of a Play (Large Theatre), Best Director of a Play, and Best Actor in a Play for Mays. Broadway credits are The Music Man, Oslo (Tony nominee), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony nominee), The Best Man, I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award winner), Pygmalion, Journey’s End, and Of Thee I Sing. Off-Broadway, he has performed in Measure for Measure, Lydie Breeze, Quills, and many more. Regional credits include My Fair Lady, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Cherry Orchard, Tartuffe, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and Peter Pan. Film and television credits include Julia, currently on HBOMax, Hacks, Perry Mason, Westworld, The Blacklist, Joel Cohen’s Macbeth, Patty Jenkins' I Am The Night, the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Inherent Vice, Rebel in the Rye, I Am Michael, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Americans, Mildred Pierce, Law & Order: SVU, Nurse Jackie, The Closer, and Dolley Madison. Awards include Tony Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and three Obie Awards. Mays received his B.A. from Yale College and an M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego. He is married to Susan Lyons. He dedicates his performance to the memory of his parents, Lynnabeth and Victor Mays, who first read A Christmas Carol aloud to him.