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ACTING CREDITS
Theatre
Mortal Coil
(all roles)
NY Int'l Fringe Festival
Cleveland Public Theatre
Stella Adler Theatre, LA
Video
Winner:Cleveland Drama Critics Award
Polymorphous Perverse (George)
42nd St. Collective Summerfest
The Tempest (Ariel)
People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA
All Compact (He)
TYA Tour
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck)
Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)
Taming of the Shrew (Tranio)
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
School for Wives (Alain)
Three Seasons in Repertory
Tartuffe (Tartuffe)
As You Like It (Jacques)
Also served as company
Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry)
Voice and Movement Master
Macbeth (Angus)
Two Gentlemen of Verona(Speed)
Hamlet (Guildenstern;
Osric)
The Comedy of Errors (Dromio)
Film
Cotton Club (Real
Estate Agent)
Annie Hall (Soldier)
Fame (Patron)
Saturday Night Fever (Dancer)
Marathon Man (Student)
Voice Over/Narration/Dubbing
Nazis:The Occult Conspiracy
Discovery TV
The Big Apple
Museum of the City of New York
Recording Industrial
FVG
The Rich Also Cry
Media Studio (Dubbing)
DIRECTING CREDITS
HeddaGabler
Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club
Summer and Smoke
Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club
Grit in a Sensitive Instrument (NY Premiere)
Vineyard Theatre, NYC
Pretty Witty Nell (NY Premiere)
Vineyard Theatre, NYC
Titus Andronicus
The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
Santa MonicaThreeway(NY Premiere)
The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
BertoltBrecht:In
Dark Times (NY
Premiere)
The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
Shaviana(Premiere)
The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
Titus Andronicus
The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
Santa MonicaThreeway(NY Premiere)
The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
BertoltBrecht:In
Dark Times (NY
Premiere)
The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
Shaviana(Premiere)
The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
The Haircut
The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
Sure Thing
The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
Free Pass to SoriaMoria(U.S. Premiere)
CityUniversity of NY
Brighton Beach Memoirs
AADA, NYC
The White Whore and the Bit Player
Core Group; Theatre Row Theatre,NYC
Pearl
Pulse Ensemble Theatre, NYC
Soap Opera
Renegade Theatre Co., John Houseman Theatre, NYC
Bright Room Called Day
Cleveland Public Theatre
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Cleveland Public Theatre
Sweet Phoebe
Cleveland Public Theatre
Science Gets Serious (Premiere)
Cleveland Public Theatre
Mister Lincoln
The Acting Company
Macbeth
Shakespeare in San Marco, Jacksonville, FL
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare in San Marco, Jacksonville, FL
Hamlet
Shakespeare at the Met, Jacksonville, FL
The Tempest
Shakespeare at the Met, Jacksonville, FL
Awake and Sing
Halle Theatre, Cleveland, OH
Last Chance for Happiness (Premiere)
T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
Loot
T. Schreiber
Studio, NYC
Shatter The Vessel (Premiere)
Charlottesville,VA New Play Festival
Blithe Spirit
FindlaySummerStock,
Findlay, Ohio
Bus Stop
FindlaySummerStock, Findlay, Ohio
Artifice (Premiere)
42nd St. Collective
Real Live Dancing Boy (Premiere)
42nd St. Collective Summerfest
Gift of the Magi (Musical/Tour)
Interborough Repertory Theater
Snake Eyes (Premiere)
Stagewrights, NYC
Gutterballs(Premiere)
Stagewrights, NYC
In Memory (Premiere)
Westside Rep, NYC
Felicia
Silver Lining Cabaret, NYC
A Season in Rep (Premiere)
West Coast Ensemble, LA
A Place To Come Home To
Westside Rep, NYC
Nathaniel (Premiere)
Theatre 11, NYC
As You Like It (A
New Musical)
Brothers & Sisters Cabaret, NYC
Readings and Workshops:
The Basic Theatre, Stagewrights,
42nd St. Collective Cleveland Public Theatre, NYU, ADAPT, The New Group, IRT
Industrials
Hoffman-Hedges Prod
TEACHING CREDITS
New Actors Workshop (current)
Skinner Technique;IPA,
Dialects;
American Academy of Dramatic
Art (current)
Skinner technique, IPA; Voice;Director
New York Film Academy (current)
Speech, IPA
TadaTheatricalEnsembleSchool (current)
Voice and Diction; Poetry and Shakespeare;
The Creative Seed Network Excellent Service Series
KeyIn To Speech Workshop
T. Schreiber Studio
Speech and Dialects
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Voice and Movement Master – 3 Seasons
Mint Theatre Co
Dialect Coach:New
Music
Halle Theatre, Cleveland, OH
Speech Coach:Merchant of Venice (w/ M. Carnovsky)
NorthCanyonHigh School;Phoenix, AZ
Shakespeare Workshop
FloridaCommunity CollegeJacksonville
Directing Shakespeare
PBS National Teacher Training Institute:Keynote Speaker
Directing as a model for the classroom
ADAPT, NYC Workshop
The Theatrical Choice
Society for the Advancement of Judaism; NYC
The Dybbuk – three week class
West End Synagogue, NYC
Two Faces of Shlyock - lecture
WRITING CREDITS
Mortal Coil (play)
Reading, Basic Theatre Marathon, NYC
Produced: NY Int'l Fringe Festival
Produced:Cleveland Public Theatre
Winner of Cleveland Drama Critics Award
Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles
Produced:Video - Pan:Image,
Inc.
Selected Institutional Venues
Seven Keys to Success Without Struggle (w/P. Brackett)
Book Published by The Creative Seed
Nazis & The Occult: Myths, Mystics and Madmen
Cinnabar Pictures/Discovery Channel
20th Century Fox:The First
Fifty Years
Van Ness Films / AMC TV
Carmen Miranda: The South American Way
Van Ness Films/ A&E TV
Tyrone Power: The Last Idol
Biography
Series
James Brown: Godfather of Soul
GoodMarc Productions/ A&E TV Biography
Series
Contributing Writer
My Weekly Reader
Contributing Writer
Facilities Magazine
Contributing Writer
IndiePlanet (web magazine - theatre channel)
The Mystery Page
A monthly column in A&E Monthly Magazine
To Be Quentin
Miracles:A Fable
Children's' Plays
The New Baby
Published by Sundance
Victory At Calvin Coolidge
Publishing
Life In The Laugh Track
AeonDubai(Industrial Presentation)
Reiser-Unemoto-ReiserArchitectural
The Bride's Guide (60' Instructional Video)
E.N.D. Productions
POV: Max (A Sitcom Treatment; w/ Merrick Bursuk)
Children's Television Workshop
A Season
in Rep (Play)
Workshop
Production West Coast Ensemble, LA
Pajama Party Horror (Screenplay; w/ Lynn Lowry)
DRAMATURG
In My Father’s Eyes
Anastassi/Friedman
Time of the Elephants
W. Graf
Farenheit 451
Jax Reads
ADDITIONAL
CREDITS
Director in Residence
The Basic Theatre, NYC
Executive Director
The Conspiracy Theatre, NYC
Director of Stage Combat
NY Grand Opera at BAM
Reader
The Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Westbeth