Among her many credits, Quincy Tyler Bernstine starred in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s time-jumping biographical play, Mary’s Seacole, about the 19th-century Jamaican nurse, for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play. In 2019 she was honored with an Obie for “sustained excellence of performance.” That excellence has encompassed critically-acclaimed theater shows such as Small Mouth Sounds, Our Lady of 121st Street, As You Like it, and Peer Gynt, as well as big screen roles in Manchester by the Sea, Easy Living, Still Alice, and Rachel Getting Married, among many others.