JAY O. SANDERS - John Baird (JFK, The Day After Tomorrow)

Jay O. Sanders returns to live theater this September in Richard Nelson’s What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad, followed by his Broadway role in Conor McPherson’s Girl From The North Country set to Bob Dylan’s music. His most recent films include French political thriller Songs of Revenge, When You Finish Saving the World (written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg), and Limbo (directed by Alejandro Iñárritu). Among his other films are The Day After Tomorrow, JFK, Tumbleweeds, and Kiss the Girls. On television, he has lately appeared in Manhunt: Deadly Games, Sneaky Pete, and The Sinner (Season 2). Sanders won the Drama Desk Award for his performance in Hunter Theater Project’s Uncle Vanya and continues as a prolific narrator of PBS documentaries, including WNET’s Secrets of the Dead and WGBH’s Nova.