About
Jay Olcutt Sanders (born April 16, 1953) is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He has received a Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Sanders made his off-Broadway debut in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Henry V in 1976. He originated the role of Bradley in Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978). He made his Broadway debut in the play Loose Ends (1979). He returned to Broadway in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1983), Saint Joan (1993), Pygmalion (2007), Girl from the North Country (2020), and Purlie Victorious (2023).
Filmography
Remain2027
Queens of Combat: Rome's Female Gladiators2026 · Narrator
The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum2025 · Narration
Girl From the North Country2024 · Nick Laine
His Three Daughters2024 · Vincent
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch2024 · Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee
Outrage2023 · Frank Brand
When You Finish Saving the World2023 · Roger
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths2022 · Ambassador Jones
The Road to Galena2022 · John Baird
Incidental Moments of the Day2020 · Richard Apple
And So We Come Forth2020 · Richard Apple
Tapes2020
What Do We Need to Talk About?2020 · Richard Apple
That Hopey Changey Thing2020 · Richard Apple
Regular Singing2020 · Richard Apple
Sweet and Sad2020 · Richard Apple
Sorry2020 · Richard Apple
The Assistant2020 · Boss (voice)
NOVA: Decoding da Vinci2019 · Narrator (voice)