My Acting Resume

 

Theatre for Young Audiences:

Genies, Lamps and Dreams Sinbad, Aladdin, etc. Tour prod. w/YouthStages (Princeton, NJ)

2 Marys, 5 Jacks and One… Willie Winkie, etc. Tour prod. w/YouthStages (Princeton, NJ)

Elves and the Shoemaker Emile the Shoemaker Tour prod. w/YouthStages (Princeton, NJ)

Rags to Riches Dick Actor’s Cafe

Androcles & the Lion Pantalone Actor’s Cafe

Charlotte’s Web Templeton Actor’s Café


Stage Acting

79 productions, including:

The Brothers McWhorter Capt. Henderson Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Civil War Event

Poe: A Haunted Life Poe and 6 of his characters  Seven Stories Theatre Co.

Gumshoes Never Cry Dirk Manzman Seven Stories Theatre Co.

In Congress with the Night   Reynold               Seven Stories Theatre Co.

Love is a Heart Full of Bullet Holes  Dirk Manzman               Seven Stories Theatre Co.

The Dining Room 9 roles                  New Mystics Arts, Fairmont, WV

Love Letters Andrew Ladd               New Mystics Arts, Fairmont, WV

The Nutcracker Drosselmeyer Rising Star Dance Ensemble, NJ 

A Christmas Carol Ebeneezer Scrooge OCE Players, Manasquan, NJ; New Mystics                    Arts, Fairmont, WV 

Whose Spell is It…? Robin Hood Youthstages, Princeton, NJ 

Into the Woods Baker Desert Stages,  Scottsdale, AZ 

Joseph and the Amazing...               Joseph Desert Stages

Baby Nick Actor’s Cafe, Bradley Beach, NJ 

Sweeney Todd Toby Actor’s Cafe

Chicago Billy Flynn Actor’s Cafe

The Fantasticks El Gallo & Matt A.C., Beaver College, Desert Stages

Rise of Daniel Rocket Daniel Beaver College, Glenside, PA 

Film Acting:

Desk Clerk (2019) Hotel Guest

We’re Gonna Make (Y)our Film (2015) David Darren Finch

The Vig (short film; Dir. Phil Rush, Exec Prod. Bob Tinnell) (2014)  George, a mechanic

White Zombie, Rag N Bone Productions (2013) Gilles Beaumonde

Tell Tale Heart: Retold, MadJustiss Films (2013) The old man

Nirvana or Bust, MadJustiss Films (2013) The guy

1863, Allegheny Image Factory (2012) James O. Watson

Five shorts for Ground up Productions/New Mystics Films (2008)         Carlo/Italian father

Stumped, New Mystics Films (2011) Allen

Jake’s Lament (2005) Mark, a father killed in a mugging

Student film for Ithaca University (2004) Doug, a divorcing father

Industrials:

WVU Hospital Safe Lifting (2013)   Allegheny Image Factory               Hospital Patient

Primavera Systems (1994) Office Worker

Chemocare (1993) Cancer Patient

Super Fresh (1993) Store Employee

Pep Boys (1993) Mechanic

Commerials, TV, and Miscellaneous:

Live Zoom table read of the short play “Winging It” by Krystle Weaver (2021), Bill Winnebaker

Japanese TV, “Passage of Dreams” (2017) Six of my pirate characters and myself

“Comedy Uncorked” and “Whose Wine is it Anyway?” (2013) Improv comedy team member

Live from Fairmont, West Virginia (Fox TV, 2011)                        Himself

Shoot Wrestling Promo for Pay-Per-View  (1993) Bar Patron

Variety Show Sketch, NY TV-34 (1993)               Gang Member

Audio/Voiceover

“Letter to John Wilson” (written by John Gartland), New Mystics Enterprises (2014)

“The Old Sea Salt,” George Galves Pirate Website (2021)

Connect to the Light (written by Receive Joy), available on Audible 

Chautauqua/Historical Education:

Sex, Drugs & Rock n Roll (1960s)  Allen Ginsberg OK Chautauqua (2022), https://vimeo.com/channels/1769132

Latin Americans in N. CA History   Mariano Vallejo Sierra Nevada Mountain Chautauqua

Chautauqua Ernesto “Che” Guevara OK Chautauqua (2019); Ed Kinney Series (2021)

Golden Age of Piracy                      Samuel Bellamy Hadley Library, Winchester, VA (2020); Athens (GA) Chautauqua (2021); Ed Kinney Series (2022); Ashland Chautauqua (2023)

Golden Age of Piracy Seven pirates/Royal Navy Lt.   Numerous organizations (2016-)

Legend of Blackbeard Six Golden Age Pirates Port City Tour Company (2016-2018)

Puzzle at Port Royal Capt. Luis Emilio Voices from the Earth (WV) (2011–2013)

Woodlawn Cemetary Capt. Thomas Maulsby Marion County Historical Society (2011/2012)

Confirmation celebration St. Francis of Assisi Bricktown, NJ private event (2007)


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