To William Jackson Harper, Acting On Stage Is ‘Awful,' But He Finds Value In the Process

Playbill: William Jackson Harper admits that he’s very good at playing stressed out, neurotic characters. The longtime theatre actor got mainstream recognition as the perennially nervous philosophy professor Chidi Anagonye in the NBC show The Good Place. He then followed it up with the anthology series Love Life on HBO Max, where Harper played a man trying to find a relationship but is unable to articulate his own feelings. Now Harper is back on the stage playing Kenneth in Primary Trust Off-Broadway—Kenneth is a reclusive man who has trouble connecting with other people.