Artistic Associate
Since 2016
Chicago credits include work at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Actors Gymnasium, Redmoon, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He is co-founder of the Back Room Shakespeare Project, a decade-long project to do Shakespeare more like how Shakespeare did Shakespeare: with serious actors, no director, only one rehearsal, and in a bar. He is author of the books “My Life with the Shakespeare Cult” and “Blueprints for a Shakespeare Cult.” He teaches Shakespeare at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of Long Table Pancakes: heirloom grain pancake mixes that fight climate change.
Regional credits include work at American Players Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, and the Guthrie Theater. On-Camera credits include recurring roles on Boardwalk Empire and Crisis.
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Bio as of 2022
Artist Media
Lookingglass Productions
Credits And Awards
Theatre Credits
Chicago
- Marnie & Phil (The Actors Gymnasium)
- Comedy of Errors, School for Lies, Julius Caesar, Henry VIII, The Feast, Timon of Athens (Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
- Hot L Baltimore (Steppenwolf Theatre Company)
- Hunchback (Redmoon Theater at New Victory Theater, 2008)
- Hunchback (Redmoon Theater, 2007)
- Hugging the Shoulder (Chicago Fusion Theatre)
Regional
- Lookingglass Alice (Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and Denver Center for Performing Arts, 2015; Alliance Theatre, 2010; Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2009)
- Doctor’s Dilemma, Romeo and Juliet (American Players Theatre)
- Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville)
- Sirens (Fox Valley Repertory Theater)
- The Boys Next Door (Syracuse Stage)
- The Spy (The Acting Co.)
- Henry V, Flags, Proclivities (Guthrie Theater)
- Cymbeline, Macbeth (Tricklock Company)
- Macbeth (Greasy Joan & Co.)
- Romeo and Juliet (ABQ Little Theatre)
- Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (Guthrie Theater | SOTC)
- Secret Lives of Losers (The Playwrights’ Center)
Television Credits
- Chicago Fire (NBC)
- Crisis (NBC)
- Mob Doctor (Fox)
- Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
Awards
- Actors Equity Association Suzi Bass Award for Best Ensemble for Lookingglass Alice (2010)
- Syracuse Area League of Theatres (SALT) Award for Best Play for Lookingglass Alice (2011)
Education
BFA, University of Minnesota
Guthrie Theater Professional Actor Training Program
