Robert Petkoff
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Robert Petkoff is an award-winning American
stage
actor
known for his work in Shakespearean productions and more recently on the New York City
musical theater stage. Petkoff has performed on Broadway
, the West End
, regional theatre, and done work in film and television. Petkoff was featured as "Perchik" in the Tony award
-winning 1994 revival cast of Fiddler on the Roof
but is perhaps best known for his role as "Tateh" in the 2009 revival of "Ragtime" on Broadway. Petkoff has also provided the voices for over two dozen audiobooks, winning awards for his reading of Michael Koryta
's So Cold the River. Married to actress Susan Wands, Petkoff has lived in New York City for the last fifteen years, and often performs in benefit concerts for theater-district-related charities.
. His father was an officer in the Air Force and Robert grew up living all over the United States. He graduated from high school in Princeton, Illinois and attended Illinois State University
, studying theater. After finishing college, he began acting with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
, then continued his career in Chicago
, working with the Oak Park Festival Theatre
and Chicago Shakespeare Theater
.
While in Chicago Robert was cast in the TV Pilot “Mona”, a spin-off from “Who’s The Boss”. He moved to Los Angeles and lived there for five years, where along with television work, he also worked in local theaters.
Petkoff performed in Los Angeles-area stage productions including "Julius Caesar" at the Mark Taper Forum
directed by a young Oskar Eustis
, and "The School for Husbands" at the Old Globe Theatre
in San Diego, California
. In 1993, Petkoff was cast by Michael Kahn
as the Duke of Aumerle in Kahn's production of Richard II
at the Shakespeare Theatre Company
in Washington, D.C.
, performing twice more for the company in 1994.
After returning to perform under Barbara Gaines
at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater as Hamlet in "Hamlet", Petkoff worked with director Mark Lamos, who cast him as Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" at the Hartford Stage Company, with Calista Flockhart
as Juliet.
starring Kristen Chenowith, and shortly after he was cast in Sir Peter Hall's production of "Tantalus", which was a co-production of The Denver Center for The Performing Arts and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The production opened in Denver and then toured in the UK, with a final performance at the Barbican Theatre in London. The production of "Tantalus" was the subject of a TV documentary, which examined the turbulent collaboration with John Barton and Sir Peter Hall.
Petkoff would go on to work with Sir Peter Hall in two other productions: as Perry Stewart in The Royal Family (play) with Judi Dench
, Toby Stevens and Emily Blunt
in London's Theater Royal Haymarket, and as Algernon in "The Importance of Being Earnest" with Lynn Redgrave
in a national tour.
Petkoff's first professional musical role was with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
, when he starred as George in "Sunday in the Park with George", directed by Gary Griffin in 2002. Although not trained as a musical theater singer, he had been trained as a stage actor at Illinois State University, this was the first of his musical theater roles. Petkoff's first Broadway musical was as Perchik in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof
starring Alfred Molina
and Harvey Fierstein
.
Petkoff was cast as Sir Robin in the National Tour of Spamalot
in 2007 replacing David Turner in the role. After a year on tour he was invited to join the Broadway company and in 2008 replaced Martin Moran in the role until Clay Aiken took over. Petkoff reclaimed the role again after Clay’s first departure.
Petkoff returned to Broadway in Ragtime (musical)
, as Tateh, in the 2009 revival directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge
, which opened at the Neil Simon Theater in November 2009 and closed January 10, 2010. The revival was nominated for seven 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival; and was also nominated for nine 2010 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical.
Pekoff is scheduled to perform as Buddy in Follies, with the Chicago Shakespeare Festival, directed by Gary Griffin in October 2011.
, when he starred as George in Sunday in the Park with George
, directed by Gary Griffin in 2002.
Petkoff's first appearance on Broadway in a musical was as Perchik in the 2004 production of Fiddler on the Roof
, starring Alfred Molina
. Directed by David Leveaux, the revival won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical.
In 2008, he joined the national tour of Spamalot
as Sir Robin, and then played the role on Broadway, replacing Clay Aiken in the role.
In 2009 Petkoff appeared in "Happiness" at Lincoln Center Theatre, directed by Susan Stroman
, playing the part of Neil.
Petkoff has also worked with several musical theater workshops, including a reading of new musical version of "Enchanted April" in the role of Mr. Briggs in March 2010.
Petkoff also appeared as Guy Fawkes in the New York Stage & Film's Powerhouse Theater production of "Bonfire Night", directed by Alex Timbers.
Petkoff starred in the "Like Water for Chocolate" musical with Tony Award winner Chita Rivera
at the Sundance Institute's 2011 Theatre Lab in Alberta, Canada, in April 2011. In addition to Chita Rivera (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Chicago, The Rink), and Robert Petkoff (Ragtime, Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof), the cast included Nicholas Rodriguez (Tarzan, "One Life to Live"), Sharon Washington (The Scottsboro Boys) and Dan Butler ("Frasier").
Recently Petkoff was involved in a reading of a new musical "Rise", cast as Pat Robertson and starring Kristin Chenoweth
, also featuring Hunter Foster
as Jim Bakker. The musical set in the 1970s imagines the afterlife of Tammy Faye Bakker, who founded "The PTL Club" with her husband, who later was sent to jail [5]
On June 23, 2011 Petkoff performed in an invitation-only reading of a new musical based on Jane Austen's "Sense & Sensibility" at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge in the role as Colonel Brandon. The reading also featured Christiane Noll (Ragtime) and Brandi Burkhardt (Tale of Two Cities) as the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne,and Sebastian Arcelus (Elf, Jersey Boys) as Edward Ferrars.[6]
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Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actor
Actor
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known for his work in Shakespearean productions and more recently on the New York City
New York City
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musical theater stage. Petkoff has performed on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
, the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
, regional theatre, and done work in film and television. Petkoff was featured as "Perchik" in the Tony award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-winning 1994 revival cast of Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
but is perhaps best known for his role as "Tateh" in the 2009 revival of "Ragtime" on Broadway. Petkoff has also provided the voices for over two dozen audiobooks, winning awards for his reading of Michael Koryta
Michael Koryta
Michael Koryta is an American author of contemporary crime and mystery fiction. He is known for novels such as Tonight I Said Goodbye, Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave and The Silent Hour ....
's So Cold the River. Married to actress Susan Wands, Petkoff has lived in New York City for the last fifteen years, and often performs in benefit concerts for theater-district-related charities.
Early life and career
Robert Petkoff is the son of Carolyn and Peter Petkoff, the 5th of seven children, and was born in Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
. His father was an officer in the Air Force and Robert grew up living all over the United States. He graduated from high school in Princeton, Illinois and attended Illinois State University
Illinois State University
Illinois State University , founded in 1857, is the oldest public university in Illinois; it is located in the town of Normal. ISU is considered a "national university" that grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research; it is also recognized as one of the top ten largest...
, studying theater. After finishing college, he began acting with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
Illinois Shakespeare Festival
The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is located in Bloomington, Illinois, USA. It began in 1978 and it celebrated its 30th season in the summer of 2007...
, then continued his career in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, working with the Oak Park Festival Theatre
Oak Park Festival Theatre
Oak Park Festival Theatre is a professional theatre company in Oak Park, Illinois, under contract with Actors' Equity Association. The company was founded in 1975 by Marion Kaczmar, an Oak Park resident and arts patron, and performed Renaissance works, almost exclusively by William Shakespeare,...
and Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth...
.
While in Chicago Robert was cast in the TV Pilot “Mona”, a spin-off from “Who’s The Boss”. He moved to Los Angeles and lived there for five years, where along with television work, he also worked in local theaters.
Petkoff performed in Los Angeles-area stage productions including "Julius Caesar" at the Mark Taper Forum
Mark Taper Forum
The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...
directed by a young Oskar Eustis
Oskar Eustis
Oskar Eustis is the artistic director at the Public Theater and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country.-Career:...
, and "The School for Husbands" at the Old Globe Theatre
Old Globe Theatre
The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons...
in San Diego, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. In 1993, Petkoff was cast by Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn
Michael Kahn is the name of:*Michael Kahn *Michael Kahn , Washington D.C. based Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company...
as the Duke of Aumerle in Kahn's production of Richard II
Richard II (play)
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's...
at the Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. Their self professed mission "is to present classic theatre of scope and size in an imaginative, skillful and accessible American style that honors the playwrights’ language and intentions while viewing their...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, performing twice more for the company in 1994.
After returning to perform under Barbara Gaines
Barbara Gaines (director)
Barbara Gaines is an American theatre director, impresario, and actress. She is the founder and current Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.-Life and career:...
at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater as Hamlet in "Hamlet", Petkoff worked with director Mark Lamos, who cast him as Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet" at the Hartford Stage Company, with Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart
Calista Kay Flockhart is an American actress who is primarily recognized for her work in television. She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award...
as Juliet.
Stage career
Petkoff first appeared on Broadway in Epic ProportionsEpic Proportions
Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane.Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of brothers Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert to work as extras in the Biblical epic film Exeunt Omnes, directed by the mysteriously reclusive D.W. DeWitt. All 3400 extras are supervised by...
starring Kristen Chenowith, and shortly after he was cast in Sir Peter Hall's production of "Tantalus", which was a co-production of The Denver Center for The Performing Arts and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The production opened in Denver and then toured in the UK, with a final performance at the Barbican Theatre in London. The production of "Tantalus" was the subject of a TV documentary, which examined the turbulent collaboration with John Barton and Sir Peter Hall.
Petkoff would go on to work with Sir Peter Hall in two other productions: as Perry Stewart in The Royal Family (play) with Judi Dench
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
, Toby Stevens and Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress best known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada , The Young Victoria , and The Adjustment Bureau . She has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, two London Film Critics' Circle Awards, and one BAFTA Award...
in London's Theater Royal Haymarket, and as Algernon in "The Importance of Being Earnest" with Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...
in a national tour.
Petkoff's first professional musical role was with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth...
, when he starred as George in "Sunday in the Park with George", directed by Gary Griffin in 2002. Although not trained as a musical theater singer, he had been trained as a stage actor at Illinois State University, this was the first of his musical theater roles. Petkoff's first Broadway musical was as Perchik in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
starring Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina is a British-born American actor. He first came to public attention in the UK for his supporting role in the 1987 film Prick Up Your Ears...
and Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...
.
Petkoff was cast as Sir Robin in the National Tour of Spamalot
Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre...
in 2007 replacing David Turner in the role. After a year on tour he was invited to join the Broadway company and in 2008 replaced Martin Moran in the role until Clay Aiken took over. Petkoff reclaimed the role again after Clay’s first departure.
Petkoff returned to Broadway in Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...
, as Tateh, in the 2009 revival directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, choreographer and writer for the stage. After working in regional theatre, off-Broadway and elsewhere for thirty years, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway production, a revival of Ragtime in 2009...
, which opened at the Neil Simon Theater in November 2009 and closed January 10, 2010. The revival was nominated for seven 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Revival; and was also nominated for nine 2010 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical.
Pekoff is scheduled to perform as Buddy in Follies, with the Chicago Shakespeare Festival, directed by Gary Griffin in October 2011.
Musical theater
Petkoff's first musical was with the Chicago Shakespeare TheaterChicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth...
, when he starred as George in Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat...
, directed by Gary Griffin in 2002.
Petkoff's first appearance on Broadway in a musical was as Perchik in the 2004 production of Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...
, starring Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina is a British-born American actor. He first came to public attention in the UK for his supporting role in the 1987 film Prick Up Your Ears...
. Directed by David Leveaux, the revival won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical.
In 2008, he joined the national tour of Spamalot
Spamalot
Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre...
as Sir Robin, and then played the role on Broadway, replacing Clay Aiken in the role.
In 2009 Petkoff appeared in "Happiness" at Lincoln Center Theatre, directed by Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director, and performer. She has won the Tony Award for both her choreography and direction, notably for the stage musical The Producers.-Early years:...
, playing the part of Neil.
Petkoff has also worked with several musical theater workshops, including a reading of new musical version of "Enchanted April" in the role of Mr. Briggs in March 2010.
Petkoff also appeared as Guy Fawkes in the New York Stage & Film's Powerhouse Theater production of "Bonfire Night", directed by Alex Timbers.
Petkoff starred in the "Like Water for Chocolate" musical with Tony Award winner Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award...
at the Sundance Institute's 2011 Theatre Lab in Alberta, Canada, in April 2011. In addition to Chita Rivera (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Chicago, The Rink), and Robert Petkoff (Ragtime, Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof), the cast included Nicholas Rodriguez (Tarzan, "One Life to Live"), Sharon Washington (The Scottsboro Boys) and Dan Butler ("Frasier").
Recently Petkoff was involved in a reading of a new musical "Rise", cast as Pat Robertson and starring Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown , for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical...
, also featuring Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster is an American musical theatre actor/singer, librettist and playwright.-Early life:Foster was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, but raised in Augusta, Georgia and Troy, Michigan. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Michigan in 1992...
as Jim Bakker. The musical set in the 1970s imagines the afterlife of Tammy Faye Bakker, who founded "The PTL Club" with her husband, who later was sent to jail [5]
On June 23, 2011 Petkoff performed in an invitation-only reading of a new musical based on Jane Austen's "Sense & Sensibility" at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge in the role as Colonel Brandon. The reading also featured Christiane Noll (Ragtime) and Brandi Burkhardt (Tale of Two Cities) as the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne,and Sebastian Arcelus (Elf, Jersey Boys) as Edward Ferrars.[6]
Recordings
| Date | Title | Author | Type | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/8/2004 | Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem... |
Jerry Bock Jerry Bock Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with... Sheldon Harnick Sheldon Harnick Sheldon Harnick is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.... |
Cast recording Cast recording A cast recording is a recording of a musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience. An original cast recording, as the name implies, features the voices of the show's original cast... |
PS Classics PS Classics PS Classics is a record label that specializes in musical theatre and standard vocals. Founded in 2000 by Grammy-nominated freelance producer Tommy Krasker and singer/actor Philip Chaffin, their releases have been critically acclaimed for their meticulous sonic detail and high-quality packaging and... |
| 10/14/2008 | Lincoln: A Photobiography Lincoln: A Photobiography Lincoln: A Photobiography is an illustrated biography of Abraham Lincoln written by Russell Freedman, and published in 1987. The book won the Newbery Medal in 1988.... |
Russell Freedman Russell Freedman Russell Freedman is a biographer and author of nearly 50 books for young people. He is most notable for receiving the 1988 Newbery Medal with his work Lincoln: A Photobiography. In 1998, he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his lifelong contribution to children's literature. He currently... |
Audiobook | Listening Library |
| 1/7/2009 | Beat the Reaper Beat the Reaper Beat the Reaper is a crime novel published in 2009, the debut novel of author/physician Josh Bazell. The plot concerns Peter Brown, a medical resident in the Federal Witness Protection Program... |
Josh Bazell Josh Bazell Josh Bazell is an American author and physician.Bazell graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in English Literature. He entered the PhD program in English Literature at Duke University before earning his MD from Columbia University. He is currently a medical resident at the University of... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 4/14/2009 | BoneMan's Daughters | Ted Dekker Ted Dekker Ted Dekker is a New York Times best-selling Christian author best known for mystery and thriller novels, though he has also made a name for himself among fantasy fans. Early in his career he wrote a number of books that would best be categorized as Religious thrillers... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 5/6/2009 | The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor | Colin Tudge Colin Tudge Colin Tudge is a British science writer and broadcaster. A biologist by training, he is the author of numerous works on food, agriculture, genetics, and species diversity.... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 8/10/2009 | Michael Jackson: The Final Years | J. Randy Taraborrelli J. Randy Taraborrelli John Randall Taraborrelli is an American journalist and biographer.Taraborrelli is an author known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures. He is a featured writer in several entertainment magazines in Canada, England, and Australia... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 8/25/2009 | The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe | J. Randy Taraborrelli J. Randy Taraborrelli John Randall Taraborrelli is an American journalist and biographer.Taraborrelli is an author known for biographies of contemporary entertainers and political figures. He is a featured writer in several entertainment magazines in Canada, England, and Australia... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 9/1/2009 | This Book Is Not Good for You This Book Is Not Good for You This Book is Not Good for You is a book by anonymous author Pseudonymous Bosch. It is part of the "Secret Series, a pentalogy of books written by Bosch, and is the sequel to The Name of This Book is Secret and If You're Reading This, It's Too Late... |
Pseudonymous Bosch Pseudonymous Bosch Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, author of the Secret Series children's books. The name plays off that of the artist Hieronymus Bosch, with the first name a combination of the words pseudonym and anonymous. The Secret Series is a pentalogy of novels based on the five senses:... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 5/6/2010 | Westward the Tide | Louis L'Amour Louis L'Amour Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels , however he also wrote historical fiction , science fiction , nonfiction , as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies... |
Audiobook | Random House Audio |
| 5/26/2010 | So Cold the River | Michael Koryta Michael Koryta Michael Koryta is an American author of contemporary crime and mystery fiction. He is known for novels such as Tonight I Said Goodbye, Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave and The Silent Hour .... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 6/1/2010 | The Broom of the System The Broom of the System The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace, published in 1987.-Background:Wallace stated that the initial idea for the novel sprang from a remark made by an old girlfriend. According to Wallace, she said "she would rather be a character in a piece of... |
David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 6/1/2010 | Pleading Guilty Pleading Guilty Pleading Guilty, published in 1993, is Scott Turow's third novel, and like the previous two it is set in fictional Kindle County.The novel begins with a middle-aged lawyer, basically waiting to retire, being assigned by his firm to track down another attorney who has embezzled millions from the... |
Scott Turow Scott Turow Scott F. Turow is an American author and a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 9/3/2010 | Room Room A room is any distinguishable space within a structure.Room may also refer to:* Room , by Emma Donoghue* Room, Nepal* Room for PlayStation Portable, a social networking service* Thomas Gerald Room , Australian mathematician... |
Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for... |
Audiobook | Pan Macmillan |
| 9/21/2010 | This Isn't What It Looks Like This Isn't What It Looks Like This Isn't What It Looks Like is a book by anonymous author Pseudonymous Bosch. It is the fourth book in the pentalogy "The Secret Series", and is the sequel to This Book is Not Good for You, If You're Reading This, It's Too Late, and The Name of this Book is Secret... |
Pseudonymous Bosch Pseudonymous Bosch Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, author of the Secret Series children's books. The name plays off that of the artist Hieronymus Bosch, with the first name a combination of the words pseudonym and anonymous. The Secret Series is a pentalogy of novels based on the five senses:... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 12/3/2010 | Girl with Curious Hair Girl with Curious Hair Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace first published in 1989. Though the stories are not related, many of them share the theme of society's fascination with celebrity, some using real celebrities, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson,... |
David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 1/24/2011 | The Cypress House | Michael Koryta Michael Koryta Michael Koryta is an American author of contemporary crime and mystery fiction. He is known for novels such as Tonight I Said Goodbye, Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave and The Silent Hour .... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 2/2/2011 | The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore | Benjamin Hale Benjamin Hale Benjamin Hale is an American novelist based in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised in Boulder, Colorado, where in he attended Fairview High School. In 2006, he received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and earned an M.F.A... |
Audiobook | Hachette Audio |
| 2/15/2011 | A Heartbeat Away | Michael Palmer Michael Palmer (novelist) Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. , is the author of 16 novels, often called medical thrillers... |
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| 7/15/2009 | Ravens | George Dawes Green George Dawes Green George Dawes Green is an American novelist and the founder of the storytelling organization The Moth. Green published his first novel, The Caveman's Valentine, in 1994, and it was adapted into a film starring Samuel L. Jackson. He quickly followed that success with The Juror, also adapted into a... |
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| 3/29/2011 | The School of Night | Louis Bayard | Audiobook | Macmillan Audio |
| 4/15/2010 | The Pale King The Pale King The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011. After Wallace's death in September 2008, a manuscript and associated computer files were found by his widow, Karen Green, and his agent, Bonnie Nadell. That material was compiled by his friend... |
David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California... |
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| 4/19/2011 | Go, Mutants! | Larry Doyle | Audiobook | Harper Audio |
| 6/8/2011 | The Ridge | Michael Koryta Michael Koryta Michael Koryta is an American author of contemporary crime and mystery fiction. He is known for novels such as Tonight I Said Goodbye, Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave and The Silent Hour .... |
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Theater
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Julius Caesar Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.... |
Strato | Mark Taper Forum Mark Taper Forum The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Oskar Eustis Oskar Eustis Oskar Eustis is the artistic director at the Public Theater and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country.-Career:... |
| 1992 | The School for Husbands | Valere | Old Globe Theatre Old Globe Theatre The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Edward Payson Call |
| 1993 | Richard II Richard II -People:*Richard II of England , King of England.*Richard II of Normandy , Duke of Normandy*Richard II of Aquila *Richard II of Capua *A nickname for Richard M... |
Aumerle | Shakespeare Theatre Company Shakespeare Theatre Company The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. Their self professed mission "is to present classic theatre of scope and size in an imaginative, skillful and accessible American style that honors the playwrights’ language and intentions while viewing their... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Michael Kahn Michael Kahn Michael Kahn is the name of:*Michael Kahn *Michael Kahn , Washington D.C. based Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company... |
| 1994 | Julius Caesar Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.... |
Flavius | Shakespeare Theatre Company Shakespeare Theatre Company The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. Their self professed mission "is to present classic theatre of scope and size in an imaginative, skillful and accessible American style that honors the playwrights’ language and intentions while viewing their... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Joe Dowling Joe Dowling Joe Dowling is the Artistic Director for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is also well-known for his work as Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and has directed plays in all the major theatres in Ireland as well as theatres in London, New York, Washington... |
| 1994 | Romeo & Juliet | Paris | Shakespeare Theatre Company Shakespeare Theatre Company The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a regional theatre company located in Washington, D.C. Their self professed mission "is to present classic theatre of scope and size in an imaginative, skillful and accessible American style that honors the playwrights’ language and intentions while viewing their... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Barry Kyle Barry Kyle Barry Albert Kyle is an English theatre director, currently Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, England, and Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.... |
| 1994 | The Illusion The Illusion The Illusion is a play by Tony Kushner, adapted from Pierre Corneille's seventeenth-century comedy, L'Illusion Comique. It follows a contrite father, Pridamant, seeking news of his prodigal son from the sorcerer Alcandre. The magician conjures three episodes from the young man's life... |
Theogenes, Clindor, Calisto |
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Paul Mullins |
| 1995 | Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus... |
Troilus | Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Barbara Gaines Barbara Gaines (director) Barbara Gaines is an American theatre director, impresario, and actress. She is the founder and current Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.-Life and career:... |
| 1996 | Hamlet Hamlet The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601... |
Hamlet | Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Barbara Gaines Barbara Gaines (director) Barbara Gaines is an American theatre director, impresario, and actress. She is the founder and current Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.-Life and career:... |
| 1995 | Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a... |
Romeo | Hartford Stage Company | Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Mark Lamos Mark Lamos Mark Lamos is an American theatre and opera director, producer and actor. Under his direction, Hartford Stage won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and he has been nominated for two other Tonys... with Calista Flockhart Calista Flockhart Calista Kay Flockhart is an American actress who is primarily recognized for her work in television. She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award... as Juliet |
| 1996 | The Rivals The Rivals The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :... |
Faukland | Hartford Stage Company | Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Mark Lamos Mark Lamos Mark Lamos is an American theatre and opera director, producer and actor. Under his direction, Hartford Stage won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and he has been nominated for two other Tonys... |
| 1997 | More Stately Mansions More Stately Mansions More Stately Mansions is a play by Eugene O'Neill.Originally intended to be part of a nine-play cycle entitled A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, Mansions was an incomplete rough draft written between 1936 and 1939 that O'Neill did not want posthumously finished or produced... |
John Hartford | New York Theater Workshop | Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts... |
Directed by Ivo van Hove Ivo van Hove Ivo van Hove is a Belgian theater director best known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in The Netherlands as well as for his avant garde experimental theater productions on Off-Broadway.-Career:... |
| 1998 | Voices in the Dark | Owen | George Street Playhouse George Street Playhouse George Street Playhouse is a theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, one of the state's preeminent professional theatres committed to the production of new and established plays.... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Christopher Ashley Christopher Ashley Christopher Ashley is a stage director. Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse.In 1997, he completed The Drama League program for directors.... |
| 1999 | Jolson Sings Again Jolson Sings Again Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.-Synopsis:In this follow-up to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the... |
Julian | George Street Playhouse George Street Playhouse George Street Playhouse is a theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, one of the state's preeminent professional theatres committed to the production of new and established plays.... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by David Saint David Saint Now in his 14th season at George Street Playhouse, Artistic Director David Saint has directed twenty-six mainstage productions, most recently Marlo Thomas and Keith Carradine in Arthur Laurents’ New Year’s Eve, Matthew Arkin in Donald Marguiles’ Sight Unseen, Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, William... |
| 1998 | Avow | Tom | The Directors Company | Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts... |
Directed by Michael Parva |
| 1999 | Epic Proportions Epic Proportions Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane.Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of brothers Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert to work as extras in the Biblical epic film Exeunt Omnes, directed by the mysteriously reclusive D.W. DeWitt. All 3400 extras are supervised by... |
Standby Benny/Phil | Helen Hayes Theatre Helen Hayes Theatre Helen Hayes Theatre with 597 seats is the smallest Broadway theatre and is located at 240 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan.... |
Broadway | Directed by Jerry Zaks Jerry Zaks Jerry Zaks is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me A Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama... |
| 2000 | Tantalus | Achilles, Neopotoleums, Aegisthus, Orestes |
Denver Center for the Performing Arts Denver Center for the Performing Arts The Denver Center for the Performing Arts ' is an organization in Denver, Colorado which provides a showcase for live theatre, a nurturing ground for new plays, a preferred stop on the Broadway touring circuit, a graduate-level training school for actors, acting classes for the community and rental... Barbican Centre Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory... |
2000 U.S. tour Touring theatre A touring company is an independent theatre or dance company that travels, often internationally, being presented at a different theatre in each city.... , 2001 U.K.tour Touring theatre A touring company is an independent theatre or dance company that travels, often internationally, being presented at a different theatre in each city.... |
Directed by Sir Peter Hall, |
| 2001 | The Royal Family The Royal Family The Royal Family is a play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Its premiere on Broadway was at the Selwyn Theatre on 28 December 1927, where it ran for 345 performances to close in October 1928.-Plot summary:Characters... |
Perry Stewart | Haymarket Theatre Haymarket Theatre The Theatre Royal Haymarket is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use... |
West End West End theatre West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking... |
Starring Judi Dench Judi Dench Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo... Directed by Sir Peter Hall |
| 2002 | Sunday In The Park With George Sunday in the Park with George Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat... |
George | Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth... |
Regional | Directed by Gary Griffin Gary Griffin Gary Griffin, is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from East High School in 1978. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he performed in several musicals and directed "Hello Dolly" for their Summer Theatre program... |
| 2002 | Compleat Female Stage Beauty | Edward Kynaston | Old Globe Theatre Old Globe Theatre The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons... |
Regional | Directed by Mark Lamos Mark Lamos Mark Lamos is an American theatre and opera director, producer and actor. Under his direction, Hartford Stage won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and he has been nominated for two other Tonys... |
| 2003 | The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted... |
Tom | The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Robert Cuccioli Robert Cuccioli Robert Cuccioli is an American actor and singer born in Hempstead, New York. He is best known for originating the lead dual title roles in the musical Jekyll and Hyde, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and won the Joseph Jefferson Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk... |
| 2004–2005 | Fiddler on a Roof | Perchik | Minskoff Theatre Minskoff Theatre The Minskoff Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre, located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. It is now showing the musical The Lion King, based on the Disney animated film of the same name.... |
Broadway | Directed by David Leveaux David Leveaux David Leveaux is a British theatre director who has been nominated for five Tony Awards as director of both plays and musicals... Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical was first awarded at the 1994 Drama Desk Awards.-1990s:* 1994: She Loves Me** Carousel** Damn Yankees** My Fair Lady* 1996: The King and I** I Do! I Do!... |
| 2005 | Romeo & Juliet | Mercutio | Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth... |
Regional | Directed by Mark Lamos Mark Lamos Mark Lamos is an American theatre and opera director, producer and actor. Under his direction, Hartford Stage won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and he has been nominated for two other Tonys... |
| 2007 | The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations... |
Algernon | various | U.S. tour Touring theatre A touring company is an independent theatre or dance company that travels, often internationally, being presented at a different theatre in each city.... |
Starring Lynn Redgrave Lynn Redgrave Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962... Directed by Sir Peter Hall |
| 2008 | Spamalot Spamalot Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre... |
Sir Robin | Shubert Theater | Broadway, U.S. tour Touring theatre A touring company is an independent theatre or dance company that travels, often internationally, being presented at a different theatre in each city.... |
Directed by Mike Nichols Mike Nichols Mike Nichols is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Graduate... |
| 2009 | Happiness | Neil | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:... |
Off-Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts... |
Directed by Susan Stroman Susan Stroman Susan Stroman is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director, and performer. She has won the Tony Award for both her choreography and direction, notably for the stage musical The Producers.-Early years:... |
| 2009–2010 | Ragtime Ragtime (musical) Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in... |
Tateh | Neil Simon Theater | Broadway | Directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge Marcia Milgrom Dodge Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, choreographer and writer for the stage. After working in regional theatre, off-Broadway and elsewhere for thirty years, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway production, a revival of Ragtime in 2009... Nominated: Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Nominated: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical was first awarded at the 1994 Drama Desk Awards.-1990s:* 1994: She Loves Me** Carousel** Damn Yankees** My Fair Lady* 1996: The King and I** I Do! I Do!... |
| 2010 | Absurd Person Singular | Sidney | Barrington Stage Company Barrington Stage Company Barrington Stage Company is a regional theatre company in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. It was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Susan Sperber, in Sheffield, Massachusetts... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Directed by Jesse Berger |
| 2011 | Follies | Buddy | Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Shakespeare Theater is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth... |
Regional Régional Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, or Régional for short, is a subsidiary airline wholly owned by Air France which connects hubs at Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bordeaux to 49 airports in Europe. The airline operates in Air France livery, retaining its name in small titles and logo on... |
Scheduled for Fall 2011 Directed by Gary Griffin Gary Griffin Gary Griffin, is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from East High School in 1978. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he performed in several musicals and directed "Hello Dolly" for their Summer Theatre program... |
Film and television works
| Year | Title | Role | Film/Television | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Milk and Money | David | Comedy film Comedy film Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences... |
RKO Pictures RKO Pictures RKO Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chains and Joseph P... , Blue Dolphin Productions |
| 1997 | The Secret of Anatasia | Voice as Robert Petcoff | Animation Animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways... |
Schwartz & Company |
| 1999 | Game Day | Flashy Agent Guy | Comedy film Comedy film Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences... |
Core Productions Inc. |
| 1999 | Law & Order | Dr. Matthew Carton | TV Series | DNR (#10.3) Wolf Films, Studios USA Television |
| 2000 | Tantalus: Behind the Mask | Achilles / Aegisthus / Neoptolemus / Orestes |
TV Movie | Denver Center Media, Stage on Screen, WNET Channel 13 New York |
| 2003 | Hack | Bill Burke | TV Series | Sinners and Saints (#1.18) |
| 2004 | The Chapelle Show | Reporter | TV Series | Episode #2.13 (2004)(#1.18) |
| 2006 | Law & Order | Ken Lesavov | TV Series | Public Service Homicide (#17.5) Wolf Films, Studios USA Television |
| 2010 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | John Reilly | TV Series | Beef (#11.20) Wolf Films, Universal Media Studios (UMS) |
| 2011 | The Good Wife | Dr. Ben Truestall | TV Series | Killer Song (#2.18) Scott Free Productions, King Size Productions |
External links
- Robert Petkoff official website