Over the course of a decades-long career, LARRY POINDEXTER has acted in hundreds of hours of episodic TV, MOWs, and pilots, as well as performing on stage in NYC, Los Angeles, on tour, in stock, and regionally. He has also recorded and toured as a musician and has earned credits as a writer and producer.

He’s appeared in hundreds of hours of television, most recently on The Lincoln Lawyer, 9-1-1, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Rookie, Station 19, and many more. With over thirty film credits, he’s probably best known as Capt. Fuller opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell in S.W.A.T.. He also appeared in 17 Again with Zac Efron and with Halle Berry in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.

But stage is where he began—and where his true passion lies. (As it should, considering he was born in a trunk: his father was Tony Award-winning lighting and scenic designer H.R. Poindexter.) Most recently, he made his NYC stage (acting) debut in the hit verbatim play Fatherland at Manhattan Theatre Club’s City Center, to rave reviews. He originated the role at The Fountain Theatre in L.A., where it ran for six months prior to its NYC transfer. Thirty-four years earlier, he starred in the adaptation of Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate (in iambic tetrameter) at the same theatre, which later transferred to the Zephyr in San Francisco.

Also “back in the day,” he appeared in the smash hit Ladies Room at The Tiffany Theatre—which spawned Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion—as well as the first 99-seat play filmed for Showtime: Journey’s End. He’s a founding member of the Troubadour Theatre Company and has played Benedick in Much A Doobie Brothers About Nothing and Antipholus in The Comedy of Aerosmith. He also appeared in Shrew and Fleetwood Macbeth with them.

He starred as the defrocked priest Reverend Lawrence T. Shannon in the Los Angeles revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana, and played the infamous role of Jack/Jesus in the hit musical Reefer Madness, for which he won an Ovation Award. Other notable roles include the long-running theatrical experience Tamara (as the brooding and mysterious Chauffeur), the PEN/West award-winning adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, and the 25th anniversary production of Boys in the Band.

He co-wrote and composed The Devil You Know, a rhythm & blues story that garnered him another Ovation nomination. As a producer, he and his partner Flody Suarez developed the Tony Award-winning The Cher Show for Broadway. He also produced the hybrid improv/scripted Thin Ice, and Uneasy Listening with alternative rock band Populuxe. He co-wrote and directed Dark Desert Highway, a theatrical production for premiere Eagles tribute band The Long Run.

Currently, he is developing Saved by the Bell: The Musical and writing his next musical, Cadillac Jack’s: A Texas Roadhouse Musical. In fall 2026, he will be producing Wendy MacLeod’s Women in Jeopardy at 59E59 in NYC.

His band, alt-country favorite The High Lonesome, recently re-released their Spark Records album Feel Free to Do So, with additional bonus tracks—including their hard-to-find EP. Though the group has retired, he continues to write and record music, and has placed songs in a number of feature films and TV shows.

Born in Dallas, Texas, he spent much of his childhood on 70th & Riverside. A die-hard basketball fan, he holds season tickets to the Clippers and plays in an Over-cough-Something League when not acting. He was originally a design and illustration major in college before being talked into a production of You Can’t Take It With You. He’s never regretted switching majors.

He is married to casting director Carol Kritzer, and they have twin boys, Rees and Jake.