On Stage

I began my professional career as an actor with the New York Shakespeare Festival's Central Park production of The Golem. The internationally acclaimed avant-garde director/designer Richard Foreman was at the helm, with Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham and Randy Quaid starring. This also began an association with the New York Shakespeare Festival that lasted until my move to Los Angeles. Also in Central Park's Delacorte Theatre I was in Twelfth Night, starring Thomas Gibson and F. Murray Abraham (for a second time). Then I became a member of the New York Shakespeare Festival produced company directed by Estelle Parsons in residence on Broadway at the Belasco theatre. We performed Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (with F. Murray Abraham again), and As You Like It in repertory for nearly a year. Then came another appearance at the Delacorte for the New York Shakespeare Festival in King John that starred Joe Morton, Kevin Conway, Jay O. Sanders, Mariette Hartley and featured a then Julliard student, Andre Braugher in an small role.

My other appearances in New York include Jack Gelber's Sleep at LaMama, and I Saw The Seven Angels conceived and directed by and featuring Eric Bogosian at The Kitchen. Then there was Treasure Island directed by world renowned fight director and swashbuckler BH Barry for the Blue Light Company at the Ohio Theatre, and the Working Theatre's NY premiere of Israel Horovitz's Henry Lumper. I even got to do a rapier and dagger fight in Placido Domingo's Otello at the Metropolitan Opera thanks to BH.
Over the years I've been in a number of plays around the country, including productions of Scapin at the Portland Stage Company directed by Tony award-winner, Bart Sher, the world premiere of On The Waterfront at the Cleveland Playhouse directed by Josephine Abady (with fight direction by BH Barry), Scaramouche at TheatreVirginia, directed by BH Barry, As You Like It at the Hippodrome State Theatre, and What The Butler Saw at The Great Lakes Theatre Festival.
In Los Angeles, I continued to work with some of the finest theatre companies. Among them: The Ahmanson Theatre's production of Sir Peter Hall's staging of Romeo and Juliet, the Blank Theatre Company's LA Weekly Award-winning production of The Cradle Will Rock, BTC's Hello Again by Michael John LaChuisa, and Starr Struck: A Musical Investigation all three directed by Daniel Henning. I've also worked with the Award-Winning company Pacific Resident Theatre where I acted in Boo: An Evening of Ghost Stories and Ardele, produced Lulu, and produced and acted in Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman. I played Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 at the Bedford-Thompson Winery and at Stages Theatre Center in Hollywood. As a member of Jack Stehlin's Award-winning Circus Theatricals, I played in Tartuffe at the Hudson Guild, The Cherry Orchard at the Odyssey Theatre with Alfred Molina, As You Like It at the Lex Theatre, and the one-act plays: Bender, The Sanest Men In America, and the award-winning First To The Egg.

I moved to the San Francisco Bay area for a few years. While I was there, I was in the world-premiere production of My Antonia at TheatreWorks. The production of Willa Cather's novel was directed by Scott Schwartz, who also adapted the novel for the stage. I was in the Aurora Theatre production of Marcel Pagnol's Marius. One of my favorite things to do as an actor in the Bay Area was PlayGround, a monthly new play festival where everyone flies by the seat of their pants.

In Los Angeles, I've been working with The New American Theatre (formerly Circus Theatricals) as an associate artist. In the fall of 2006 I was in the World Premiere of Shem Bitterman's play Man.Gov, which also played in NYC, October 2008 at the 45th St Theatre. I was also in the critically acclaimed production of The Adding Machine, Elmer Rice's 1923 expressionist masterpiece, and also Circus Theatrical's first original musical, Weedwacker . After that was Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and the World Premiere of Safe by Chuck Rose. The Taming of the Shrew directed by Jack Stehlin for Circus Theatricals at the Odyssey Theatre, the L.A. Premiere of More Lies About Jerzy and The Circus Theatricals 15th Annual Festival of New One-Act Plays at the Hayworth Theatre in Hollywood.

In the summer of 2011 I worked for the New York Shakespeare Festival again at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. We performed All's Well That Ends Well directed by Daniel Sullivan and Measure For Measure directed by David Esbjornson in repertory.