Theatre/Performance
PREPAREDNESS (2021)
My first live show after Covid restrictions had been lifted. This wonderful play, written by Hillary Miller, and directed by Kristjan Thor, was presented by the Bushwick Starr, at HERE Arts Center. I played Alex Swearinger, a faculty member of a college theater department which reacts none too well when they are compelled to undergo active shooter training, or lose their funding. We played a full run downtown, with only one cancellation.
With Tracy Hazas and Nora Cole. Photo by Maria Baranova.
With, from left, KK Moggie, Allison Cimmet, and Tracy Hazas. Photo by Maria Baranova
“it’s 3:07 Again” by Monica bill Barnes & Co. (2021)
I was thrilled to be invited to dance with the company again for a show presented online, in partnership with Brookfield place. An online experience where the audience “chose its own adventure”, following the stories and watching mini films based on their choices of the performers on the screen.
Pride and Prejudice (2019)
I joined the company of Kate Hamill’s delightful adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, performed at Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven, CT. It was directed masterfully by Jess McLeod, and I had the joy of playing both Mary Bennet and Charles Bingley.
With Maria Elena Ramirez. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
With Octavia Chavez Richmond. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
MUD (2019)
I was honored to be invited to the Days and Nights Festival, in Carmel, CA, to play Lloyd in a semi-staged reading of Maria Irene Fornes’ Mud, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, with Wendy Van der Heuvel as Mae, and Paul Lazar as Henry. It was presented as a companion piece to Drowning, a world premiere opera by Phillip Glass, based on Fornes’ Drowning.
“Days GO BY” by MOnica Bill Barnes & Co. (2019)
In the early fall I had a dream come true: I performed for four nights with a dance company I greatly admire and am friends with, Monica Bill Barnes & Co.. They called me in to take part in a dance piece taking place in public, in a mall in downtown NYC, Brookfield Place. I was lucky enough to have a duet with Monica herself, as well as forming part of the ensemble.
Play on! Shakespeare festival (2019)
In mid summer, I was privileged to be a part of the culmination of Lue Douthit’s massive Play On! Shakespeare festival, produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Classic Stage Company. For a number of weeks a huge company of the finest actors in NYC put on readings of all of Shakespeare’s plays - in NEW translations by contemporary playwrights. I got the distinct pleasure of playing Don Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Adam and others in As You Like It, and finally Posthumus and Cloten in my dear friend Andrea Thome’s translation of Cymbeline.
More information on the festival can be found here.
The Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime (2018)
In the fall of 2018 I returned to Actor’s Theatre of Louisville to play Roger Shears and several other characters in this moving play, under the superb direction of Meredith McDonough.
Photos and info can be found here.
we, the invisibles (2018)
In the spring of 2018 I had the honor to be part of the company of the 42nd Humana Festival of New American Plays, at Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Susan Soon He Stanton's play about hotel workers and the lives of immigrants was directed by Damaso Rodriguez, and starred a cast of seven playing almost 100 characters.
click here for more information about the production, and see below for some photographs courtesy of Actor's Theatre and Bill Brymer of brymerphotography.com
Distant Star (2017)
With my dear friends from Caborca, we finally put on a play we'd been working on for nearly 10 years, based on Roberto Bolaño's identically-titled novel. Directed by Shira Milikowsky, we were able to rehearse for several months, culminating in a two-week run at Abrons Arts Center in September.
Click HERE for more details and production photographs.
The Government inspector (2017)
Click HERE for pictures and more info!
With Red Bull Theater, at the Duke on 42nd, starring Michael Urie, Mary Testa, Michael McGrath and Arnie Burton, among many many other incredible actors, this is the Off-Broadway premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's hilarious adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic "Revizor"! I play Svetsunov, the police chief.
Ropes (2016)
At Red Bank's TWO RIVER THEATER, the US premiere of Barbara Colio's three-hander about three brothers on the way to see their world-famous dad's last tightrope walk performance. A world-premiere English translation of the play by Maria Alexandria Beech, directed by Lisa Rothe, with Varin Ayala and Gabriel Gutierrez.
veritas (2015)
After a year or so of readings with my friends Matt Steiner and Stan Richardson of The Representatives, I was very lucky to be part of the cast of VERITAS, a deeply moving story about the trials and persecutions of gay Harvard students in 1920. We performed in the cave at the church of St.George, on 16th Street, for two weeks. Click here for more info about the production from the Representatives themselves, and links to reviews.
With John McGinty, Photo: Joshua Paul Johnson
Seven Spots on the SUN (2013)
by Martin Zimmerman, directed by KJ Sanchez, at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Winner of four League of Cincinnati Theatre Awards in 2014, including Best Play, Best Ensemble of a Play, Best Director (KJ Sanchez), and Best Sound Design (Zach Williamson)
I was very lucky to play Father Eugenio in the world premiere of this play with a marvelous cast and creative team.
Watching Sean Carvajal
with Gerardo Rodriguez
so go the ghosts of mexico, part one (2013)
by Matthew Paui Olmos, directed by Meiyin Wang, at LaMaMa ETC
I played the Dead Police Chief in this haunting re-imagining of Marisol Valles Garcia's life as a police chief in a small Mexican border town, standing up to the drug cartels.
NYT Critic's pick! Full review here: http://nyti.ms/1fZwfvV
With the cast from left - Laura Butler Rivera, myself, JJ Perez, our playwright, Matt Olmos, Peter O'Connor, and Bernardo Cubria
peer GYNT (2012)
by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, at La Jolla Playhouse and Kansas City Repertory Theater
I played "Conman" Peer, one of the three actors playing Peer Gynt in David's inimitable production that originated with the Actor's Gang and was re-mounted and re-imagined for the road. I got to play many many crazy, delicious characters.
With Kate Roberts (L) and Evan Zes (R) as the three-headed Troll King
open up, Hadrian (2012)
I played the vituperous and inflated emperor Trajan, father to Hadrian, in this new play by my friends at Caborca.
Arabian Nights (2011)
Mary Zimmerman's amazing adaptation played at Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage, and I was lucky enough to play the Clarinetist in the ensemble-based storytelling extravaganza.