Theater Arts Professional
I am a organized, self-motivated, solution seeking professional, who will bring years of experience in arts educational programming and social justice administration for the purpose of furthering growth, innovation and productivity. I offer a diverse array of skills in project admin/coordination, hosting, teaching, acting, directing and dramaturgy. Using the lens of inclusion and diversity, I examine commonalities and differences and work to execute positive changes and guide the course towards cultural change. I have thus created a diverse body of work in the performing arts where I am an award winning actor/singer, director/choreographer, dramaturge, writer, teacher and administrator. I have worked in the U.S and Internationally in classical, dramatic and musical theater. I was the Associate Artistic Director of The Harlem Shakespeare Festival where I served as a director, dramaturge and text/vocal coach.
2024 Work: SP Educator for MSK, TFANA 's New Vices Festival 2024, being a part of the South Asian Artistic Initiative & South Asian Playwrights Festival reading of Nikhil Mapapatra's American Hunger where I played Marco at both BucksCounty Playhouse and EnActe Arts presented at Actors Studio Drama School and most recently playing Etienne Louis LaFonte in the reading of the new musical Vodu at Tandem Theater.
2023 Highlights: Apple and Audible are currently running the true crime podcast, The Murder Years. You can hear me as Detective Curt Peters in Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8. In the summer I was Uncle Pleasant in Theatre for a New Audience's Off - Broadway premiere of the rarely produced Tennessee Williams' play Orpheus Descending. In late spring I did my first Industrial Medical Film for Albert Einstein College of Medicine. And I also played Willie in the reading of the film Blindsight.
2022 Highlights include: Shall I Compare Thee: the Sonnets at Southwest Shakespeare Company. Written by me and conceived and Co-Directed by Mary Coleman Way, received a nomination for best new play: Arizona's Theater World. The new performance art piece was performed at Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ, April 7 -10. Directed Disney's Moana, Jr for Rubicon Theatre Company's Summer Educational Program July 22-22, 2022. Played The Station Agent in the workshop production of The Railway Children for Northern Stage. Directed Measure for Measure and Guest Lectured at Flagler College. Zoom Workshop Reading of the play with music Tin Pan Alley Rag. Directed by Justin Ross Cohen and written by Mark Saltzman (recent Off-Broadway hit team of Romeo And Bernadette). I did a production of Tin Pan Alley Rag at Cleveland Playhouse in 2001 directed by Tony Winner Lynne Tyler Corbett.
2021 Highlights include: Filming Bros, Less Than or Equal To, Co-teaching the hybrid Acting 1 and 2 Workshop Class at CUNYs Brooklyn College, voice narration for The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and two Podcast voice roles for the shows OPC and The Register, worked as the Assistant Director and Dramaturge for Theater at Monmonth's production of The Agitators - July 3 - Aug 20, 2021, was the guest Professor for the Advanced Shakespeare Scene Study Class at Syracuse University (May 3, 2021), Text Coach for the Black Classical Actors Ensemble of Chesapeake Shakespeare (May 23, 2021), created a new adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona for a virtual performance at Southwest Shakespeare Company (April 6, 2021) and was the Guest Teaching Professor for The Black Theater class at Hunter College (April 21, 2021). Wrote the program note article "A Seat At the Table" for Marcus Nance's Why We Tell The Story for The Stratford Festival and did an interview for Karen Fricker's September 10, 2021 Toronto Star article on the cancelation of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.
2020 Highlights include: Oct 7, 2020 I directed the HSF Zoom reading of Leah Maddrie's Just About Love a new adaptation of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well set during the Freedom Summer voting drive of 1964. Working remotely I taught and directed the Acting 4 - Professional Development 2020 Digital Showcase for City College of New York, where as an Adjunct Professor I taught Act 2 - American Realism.
In 2019 as a sub at Hunter College I guest taught Acting 3 - European Realism. I have also been a Teaching Artist for Disney Theatricals Musical’s in Schools Program, where I directed and choreographed Disney catalog musicals and lead musical theater and dance workshops.
On November 25, 2015 I was rewarded with a special City Council of Baltimore Resolution for my performace in The Secret Garden which matches the 2013 City Council of New York Resolution I received for my work in New York City Theater.
In 1996 I left the Tony winning Broadway Rival of Show Boat to teach Introduction to Acting and lead workshops on: Introduction to Shakespeare: The Sonnets and The History of Musical Theater at Cornell University.
In 1992 for my work at Canada’s Stratford Festival, I was awarded the Artistic Director’s John Hirsch Guthrie Award for Most Promising Young Actor.
2024 Work: SP Educator for MSK, TFANA 's New Vices Festival 2024, being a part of the South Asian Artistic Initiative & South Asian Playwrights Festival reading of Nikhil Mapapatra's American Hunger where I played Marco at both BucksCounty Playhouse and EnActe Arts presented at Actors Studio Drama School and most recently playing Etienne Louis LaFonte in the reading of the new musical Vodu at Tandem Theater.
2023 Highlights: Apple and Audible are currently running the true crime podcast, The Murder Years. You can hear me as Detective Curt Peters in Episodes 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8. In the summer I was Uncle Pleasant in Theatre for a New Audience's Off - Broadway premiere of the rarely produced Tennessee Williams' play Orpheus Descending. In late spring I did my first Industrial Medical Film for Albert Einstein College of Medicine. And I also played Willie in the reading of the film Blindsight.
2022 Highlights include: Shall I Compare Thee: the Sonnets at Southwest Shakespeare Company. Written by me and conceived and Co-Directed by Mary Coleman Way, received a nomination for best new play: Arizona's Theater World. The new performance art piece was performed at Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ, April 7 -10. Directed Disney's Moana, Jr for Rubicon Theatre Company's Summer Educational Program July 22-22, 2022. Played The Station Agent in the workshop production of The Railway Children for Northern Stage. Directed Measure for Measure and Guest Lectured at Flagler College. Zoom Workshop Reading of the play with music Tin Pan Alley Rag. Directed by Justin Ross Cohen and written by Mark Saltzman (recent Off-Broadway hit team of Romeo And Bernadette). I did a production of Tin Pan Alley Rag at Cleveland Playhouse in 2001 directed by Tony Winner Lynne Tyler Corbett.
2021 Highlights include: Filming Bros, Less Than or Equal To, Co-teaching the hybrid Acting 1 and 2 Workshop Class at CUNYs Brooklyn College, voice narration for The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and two Podcast voice roles for the shows OPC and The Register, worked as the Assistant Director and Dramaturge for Theater at Monmonth's production of The Agitators - July 3 - Aug 20, 2021, was the guest Professor for the Advanced Shakespeare Scene Study Class at Syracuse University (May 3, 2021), Text Coach for the Black Classical Actors Ensemble of Chesapeake Shakespeare (May 23, 2021), created a new adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona for a virtual performance at Southwest Shakespeare Company (April 6, 2021) and was the Guest Teaching Professor for The Black Theater class at Hunter College (April 21, 2021). Wrote the program note article "A Seat At the Table" for Marcus Nance's Why We Tell The Story for The Stratford Festival and did an interview for Karen Fricker's September 10, 2021 Toronto Star article on the cancelation of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.
2020 Highlights include: Oct 7, 2020 I directed the HSF Zoom reading of Leah Maddrie's Just About Love a new adaptation of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well set during the Freedom Summer voting drive of 1964. Working remotely I taught and directed the Acting 4 - Professional Development 2020 Digital Showcase for City College of New York, where as an Adjunct Professor I taught Act 2 - American Realism.
In 2019 as a sub at Hunter College I guest taught Acting 3 - European Realism. I have also been a Teaching Artist for Disney Theatricals Musical’s in Schools Program, where I directed and choreographed Disney catalog musicals and lead musical theater and dance workshops.
On November 25, 2015 I was rewarded with a special City Council of Baltimore Resolution for my performace in The Secret Garden which matches the 2013 City Council of New York Resolution I received for my work in New York City Theater.
In 1996 I left the Tony winning Broadway Rival of Show Boat to teach Introduction to Acting and lead workshops on: Introduction to Shakespeare: The Sonnets and The History of Musical Theater at Cornell University.
In 1992 for my work at Canada’s Stratford Festival, I was awarded the Artistic Director’s John Hirsch Guthrie Award for Most Promising Young Actor.
