2010-2011
“A good play I think should always feel as though it's only barely been rescued from the brink of chaos, as though all the yummy nutritious ingredients you've thrown into it have almost-but-not-quite succeeded in overwhelming the design.”
— Tony Kushner
With Jess Chayes and The Assembly, I started co-creating work that demanded serious investment as both an actor and a writer.
Jess took big risks — adding live-feed video to a 19th-century Russian play and developing personal monologues in which actors offer their own perspectives on the play — always in the service of the story and with an eye to engaging (rather than alienating) the audience.
Under her direction, The Assembly harnessed the intimacy of small spaces and the voices of every artist — writer, actor and designer — in the room. With Three Sisters, I explored a new approach to performance, and with HOME/SICK, a new approach to theater altogether.
Ben at Occupy Wall Street
THE THREE SISTERS
Production
January 20-30, 2010; EXTENDED February 22-24, 2010
by Anton Chekhov, dir. Jess Chayes
with Cecil Baldwin, Edward Bauer, Kate Benson, Kate MacCluggage, Moti Margolin, Brendan McDonough, Levi Morger, Emily Perkins, Alley Scott, and Steve Stout
Role: Andrei
The Assembly @ The Red Room and The Cherry Pit
Anticipating environmental Chekhov stagings by Austin Pendleton and Sam Gold, Jess staged the production in the round, with audience on all sides and actors often sitting among them.
Inspired by Ivo von Hove's Opening Night, she incorporated live-feed video, often manipulated by the characters themselves — a tactic which enabled her to highlight moments that might otherwise have escaped the audience's attention.
DOWN FROM BUFFALO
Reading
March 16, 2010
By Eric John Meyer
with Joan MacIntosh, Rocco Sisto, Cynthia Harris, and Carmen Zilles
The Public Theater
Eric’s most autobiographical play. And his most heartbreaking one.
playwright Eric John Meyer
Ben with Cynthia Harris, Simon Jones, and Jack Koenig
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
Production
March 7-April 17, 2010
by T.S. Eliot, dir. Scott Allen Evans
with Mark Alhadeff, Jeremy Beck, Lauren English, Cynthia Harris, Simon Jones, Jack Koenig, and Erika Rolfsrud
Role: Caterer's Man, Peter (u/s)
TACT (The Actors Company Theater) @ The Beckett Theatre (Theatre Row)
My Off Broadway debut.
The Cocktail Party conflicted with a fifth touring engagement for Welcome to Nowhere, and by accepting the role, I was effectively ending my tenure with Temporary Distortion.
Though turning down a highly paid leading role in an international tour for a minor supporting role with minimal compensation, it was the only decision I could make. The Cocktail Party was clearly a step closer to the kind of career I wanted.
I cleaned out my bank account to reimburse Temporary Distortion for a plane ticket to France and I gratefully accepted the part.
SHARING SPACE
Closed Workshop
April 18, 2010
by Anna Moench, dir. Jess Chayes
with Hope Cartelli, Sarah Elmaleh, Emily Perkins, Michael Thomas, and Steve Stout
The New Georges Jam
A "performance gym" for early-career women writers and directors, The New Georges Jam was co-founded by Jess Chayes with Portia Krieger (associate director of the Tony-winning musical Fun Home) and Lucy Alibar (co-writer of the Oscar-winning film Beasts of the Southern Wild).
This particular project explored simultaneous dialogue and action. Anna Moench would further develop this material for the short play she wrote the following month for the Old Vic/New Voices Exchange.
playwright Anna Moench
playwright Matt Korahais
TRIGGER WARNING
Staged Reading
April 26, 2010
by Matt Korahais, dir. Michael Silverstone
Kate Benson, David Brooks, William Jackson Harper, Neil Hellegers, Carmen M. Herlihy, Jenny Seastone Stern, and Becky Yamamoto
Role: Ben Beckley Reading Slavoj Zizek
Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab
Matt's got a postmodern sensibility, and his writing is polyglot, dialectical, emotionally transparent, unabashedly silly, and deeply idiosyncratic.
In other words, wonderful.
ADAM'S DREAM
Workshop
April 29-May 1, 2010
by Stephen Gaultney, dir. Matt Torney
with Craig Bridger, Paul Coffey, Jessica Crandall, Justin Holcomb, Charles Linshaw, Meg McGlynn, John Peery, Adam Radford, Eric Slater, Erin Treadway, and Ian White
Role: Father
Columbia University, MFA Playwrighting Thesis @ The Cherry Pit
Casting about for inspiration, many early-career playwrights offer their takes on Harold Pinter or Annie Baker. Stephen took on The Bible.
Refugees from war and famine, Adam and Eve seek salvation in the wilderness, where they hope to build a better world for their children.
Adam’s Dream is the first of a four-part series centered around the character of Cain.
playwright Stephen Gaultney
Some Americans abroad: Ben with Jerome Parker, Ngozi Awanyu, Elizabeth Davis, and producer Alona Fogel.
THE OLD VIC/NEW VOICES U.S./U.K. EXCHANGE
Exchange Program (NYC/London)
May 22-30, 2010
Monologue Workshop with Kevin Spacey
Physical Theater Workshop with Frantic Assembly
Accent Workshop with Jill McCollough
MACBETH - AGAIN
by Jerome Parker, dir. Johnson Henshaw
with Ngozi Anyanwu, Adam Kern and Elizabeth Davis
The Old Vic (London)
Comprised of over a hundred actors, writers, directors and producers from New York and London, the exchange included my girlfriend Jess Chayes as well as many future collaborators: Stuart Luth (The Skin of Our Teeth), Anna Moench (The Pillowbook), and Carl Howell (Peter and the Starcatcher, 2013-2014).
Within a few years, two Exchange-ers would be playing leading roles in Broadway musicals: Margo Seibert as Adrian in Rocky and Elizabeth Davis as Reza in Once (for which she was nominated for a Tony). Ngozi Anyanwu, now a successful playwright, has premiered work at Center Theatre Group and Atlantic Theater Company.
In fact, everyone but Kevin Spacey is doing pretty well.
THE OCTOROON: An Adaptation Of The Octoroon Based On The Octoroon
Production
June 26-July 3, 2010
written and directed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
with Karl Allen, Jeff Biehl, Margaret Flanagan, Jake Hart, Kim Gainer, Amber Gray, LaToya Lewis, Gabe Levey, Chris Manley, Mary Wiseman, Travis York, and Sasheer Zamata
Role: Salem Scudder
P.S. 122
Playwright and director parted ways three weeks in, and by the time rehearsals ended, four actors had already dropped out of Octoroon. Then two days before our first performance, Branden cut the show’s second act.
That weekend, after The Village Voice published a scathing account of our process by a disgruntled cast member, I got word the production had been cancelled.
Hours later, we were told that with two more weeks of intensive rehearsals we could jettison most of what we'd done over the seven-week rehearsal process and mount a "response project" to the play's aborted premiere.
No longer needed for the production, I emailed Branden, becoming the sixth actor to leave the project: “As I wrote you after seeing Neighbors, the ambition and ferocity you bring to your plays are deeply inspiring to me.
I have great respect for you and your work, and I know this process has been unbelievably challenging for you. It's been challenging for me, too, and pushed me well past my limits. For that reason, and because I'm unable to devote the substantial additional rehearsal time that the new Octoroon project will require, I won't see you tonight.
Good luck with the upcoming play, and please let me know if there is any impactful way I can publicly voice my support.”
(Branden’s response was incredibly gracious.)
Four years later, Soho Rep premiered the revised play, which became one of the most critically acclaimed productions of the decade. I nearly returned to the show that winter, when I had a final callback for the extension.
a page from the 2015 premiere of An Octoroon
playwright Rupert Holmes
A TIME TO KILL
Closed Reading
June 28, 2010
by Rupert Holmes, dir. Scott Ellis
with Reed Birney, Michael McKean, and Susan Pourfar
Role: Stage Directions
Daryl Roth Productions
An adaptation by Rupert Holmes (“The Pina Colada Song,” Mystery of Edwin Drood) of the novel by John Grisham.
Time To Kill marked my first time working with longtime friend and mentor Reed Birney.
The show premiered on Broadway in 2013.
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND PROJECT
Workshop Production
August 29-30, 2010
dir. Jess Chayes
by BEN BECKLEY, Stephen Aubrey, Edward Bauer, Nic Benacerraf, Kate Benson, Jess Chayes, Anna Abhau Elliott, Luke Harlan, and Emily Perkins
with Edward Bauer, Kate Benson, Anna Abhau Elliott, Luke Harlan, and Emily Perkins
The Assembly @ UNDER St. Marks and The Kraine Theater
In 2009, I pitched a new project to The Assembly: a devised play about the would-be revolutionaries who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government in the 1960s and 1970s. (Sam Green and Bill Siegel’s first-rate documentary was a major inspiration.)
A year later, in August 2010, we had our first workshop of what would become HOME/SICK, the best and most important show I’ve ever done.
That month, we watched one documentary after another, read every memoir and historical novel we could get our hands on, and drew on found text and improvisation to string together a series of scenes about a small group of young radicals convinced they could single-handedly transform American society and government.
I'S TWINKLE - PURGATORY
Staged Reading
September 2, 2010
by Nate Weida, dir. Isaac Klein
with Mike Anderson, E.J. Cantu, William Connell, Nicole Hodges, Benjamin Jeffrey, Eric Miller, Andrew Pastides, Devin Preston and Adrian Wyatt
Some writers determine what to write next based on what's most likely to get produced: a play with a small cast, for instance, or a musical with a catchy, pop-infused score.
Nate Weida, on the other hand, freely adapted Dante's Divine Comedy as a retelling of his own journey from the South to the North — and from profound insecurity to embattled self-acceptance — in the form of an epic poem (Hell), a musical play (Purgatory), and an opera (Paradise).
PERFORM-A-THON -
"I BELIEVE"
Devised Workshop
October 2, 2010
dir. Jessi Hill, by Barbara Cassidy
New Georges
Susan Bernfield, New Georges’ artistic director, used to host an annual "Perform-a-thon," where directors and writers are paired up, handed a series of prompts, and asked to create an entirely new play in just a few hours. About an hour before showtime, actors are added to the mix.
This was my first time meeting both Jessi and Barbara. I'd end up working with Jessi again on A People (2011) and with Barbara on The Propositional Function (2013-2014).
director Jessi Hill
HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES
Staged Reading
October 4, 2010
adapted from the novel by Salman Rushdie
dir. Rachel Chavkin
with Taylor Mac and Debargo Sanyal
Role: Snooty Buttoo
Classic Stage Company
This was my first collaboration with Rachel Chavkin, who had seen me in two Assembly productions, and with Taylor Mac, who promptly offered to cast me in his upcoming show (which unfortunately conflicted with the Assembly's January 2011 workshop of HOME/SICK).
THIS TIME TOMORROW
Dance/Performance Piece
November 2-13, 2010
EXTENDED December 18-19, 2010
dir. and conceived by Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde
created by BEN BECKLEY, Abigail Browde, Dan Cozzens, Michael Silverstone, Paola di Tolla
with Ben Beckley, Dan Cozzens and Paola di Tolla
600 Highwaymen @ Duryea Church
A devised dance piece, This Time Tomorrow was that rare show staged in a church basement that's reviewed in The New York Times.
This was 600 Highwaymen’s inaugural production. The company would win an Obie Award in 2014 and now frequently tours internationally.
You can see excerpts of the production here and here.
Reviews: The New York Times
playwright Steven Levenson
THE TENANT
Closed Workshop
December 1-9, 2010
by Steven Levenson, dir. Teddy Bergman
with Aaron Dias, Melissa Miller, and Joe Tippett
Woodshed Collective
My third Woodshed project, based on the film by Roman Polanski.
Steve Levenson's script was fantastic and so was my role, but I don't regret turning down the August 2011 premiere of The Tenant.
Woodshed was once again asking me to work for free, and I couldn't afford it.
ARIZONA STATE OF LIMBO
Closed Reading
December 14, 2010
by Maja Milanovic, dir. Tea Alagic
with Joe Tapper
Role: Thomas
The Lark Play Development Center
Yugoslavian-American writer Maja Milanovic and Bosnian-American director Tea Alagic joined forces to evoke the eccentricities of American life as only they could. Intimately familiar with American politics and culture, Maja and Tea also have an outsider’s perspective that eludes most of us who were born here.
director Tea Alagic
FINS.COM - "Strengths"
National Commercial (Online and Print)
December 19, 2010
A search engine for white-collar jobs, fins.com is owned by News Corp, which owned Fox News at the time.
We shot this commercial in News Corp headquarters, where Fox News was playing in all the elevators, as well as on a big-screen TV just off-camera as we were filming.
It felt like shooting a commercial at the center of the Death Star.
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND PROJECT
Closed Workshop
January 31, 2011
dir. Jess Chayes
with Edward Bauer, Kate Benson, Anna Abhau Elliott, Luke Harlan, and Emily Perkins
The Assembly @ 20 Jay Street
A few months after our August 2010 workshop, which relied on found text and improvisation, the ensemble came together in December and January for a writing intensive. The process of a theater collective writing by consensus and a revolutionary collective governing by consensus turned out to be surprisingly similar, and the complex group dynamics of the actor-creators found their way into the complex group dynamics of the characters.
We emerged with something like 2/3 of a full script, which we'd continue to develop in the oncoming months.
We finally settled on a title for the project — HOME/SICK — a few months later.
A PEOPLE
Workshop Production
February 12, 2011
by LM Feldman, dir. Jessi Hill
with Zack Fine, Maria Helan, Annie Henks, Lanna Joffrey, Jon Levenson, Luis Moreno, Franny Silverman, Jen Taher, and Chris Tramantana
terraNOVA Collective @ the Ontological-Hysteric Theater
A fantastia of Jewish identity past and present.
The cast — some Jewish, some not — took on dozens of different roles, sometimes straddling thousands of years in a single scene. Like Our Town, A People is difficult to describe and impossible to forget. Nobody writes like LM Feldman.
Four-and-a-half years later, my castmate Franny Silverman would officiate my wedding.
THE MUMBLINGS
Closed Reading
February 15, 2011
by Dan Kitrosser, dir. Jess Chayes
with Susan Pourfar
The Lark Play Development Center
Susie was the third Jodie I’d played opposite in The Mumblings.
She was the most grounded of the three, and the most completely present. (That’s not a critique of Beth Hoyt or Alexis McGuinness — Jodie’s escaping past trauma by marrying her gay best friend, so her coping mechanisms tend to keep her at a safe distance from reality.)
I felt lucky to read the part with three very different, very brilliant actors.
actor Susie Pourfar
Nathaniel Kent and Jess Pohly in The Sister
THE SISTER
Production
February 16-February 26, 2011
by Eric John Meyer, dir. Jess Chayes
with Nathaniel Kent, Kate Michaud, and Jess Pohly
Role: Terry
The Brick Theater
Over two years after my first reading of The Sister, we premiered the show at The Brick.
Sara Walsh's extraordinary set featured the skeleton of a house — the support beams but not the walls, and Jess staged the action with the audience on three sides. As the relationships between the central characters deteriorate, and they become increasingly vicious to each other, it looked as if we were gazing at them through the bars of a prison, or a zoo.
Reviews: New York Theatre Review
FILE UNDER: SUPERWOLF -
"CUDDLE" AND "STUCK"
Production
March 5-6, 2011
by Bekah Brunstetter, dir. Sherri Kronfeld
with Havilah Brewster, Jamie Effros, and Beth Hoyt
Superwolf
Superwolf was a short-lived company run by Sherri and Jamie, intended I think to straddle the line between disaffected cool (how I’d describe The Wooster Group) and “boldly unhip sincerity” (how The New York Times later described The Assembly).
New York Theatre Review
CAPTAIN MIKE
Closed Reading
March 6, 2011
by Gary Winter, dir. Kip Fagan
with Heidi Schreck
Role: Captain Mike
An informal reading in Kip and Heidi’s apartment, down the street from mine.
Heidi’s both a terrific actor and an incredible playwright in her own right, as Broadway discovered eight years later.
HENRY V
Closed Reading
March 22, 2011
by William Shakespeare
with Rick Burnhardt, Alec Duffy, Dave Malloy and Danny Wohohan
Alec Duffy brought together friends and collaborators for informal readings of major works of Renaissance drama.
HEARTPLAY
Benefit Performance
April 1, 2011
by Heiner Muller, dir. Jess Chayes
The Assembly @ New York Theatre Workshop/4th Street Theater
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
Closed Reading
April 4, 2011
by John Webster
with Rick Burnhardt, Alec Duffy, Dave Malloy and Danny Wohohan
playwright Alex Kveton
MR. HEWITT ON THE PATH OF TRADITIONS, ENCOUNTERS, AND THE HUMAN RECORD
Workshop (Solo Performance)
April 9, 2011
by Alex Kveton, dir. Jess Chayes
Role: Mr. Hewitt
The Tank
On his last day of class, a once-beloved teacher forced into early retirement, speaks forcefully about why he refused to teach to a standardized test.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
"THE MEETING"
Production (Short)
April 14-16, 2011
by Aaron Wigdor Levy, dir. Jess Chayes
Public Theater Emerging Writers Group @ The Kraine Theater
Inspired by Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, The Meeting cast me as a latter-day Leontes unable to accept that he'd only imagined his girlfriend's infidelities.
playwright Aaron Levy
director Leta Tremblay
WAITING FOR LEFTY
Benefit Performance
April 17, 2011
by Clifford Odets, dir. Leta Tremblay
Role: Tom Clayton
Working Theater @ The Studio Theatre (Theatre Row)
Fresh out of college, I played Miller, the idealistic young lab assistant in Waiting for Lefty. In 2011, I was cast as cynical double agent Tom Clayton.
Seven years in New York will do that to you.
THE JEW OF MALTA
Independent Film (Feature)
May 9-24, 2011 (Principal Photography)
adapted from the play by Christopher Marlowe, dir. Douglas Morse
with Seth Duerr and Derek Smith
Role: First Knight
Grandfather Films
I played a viciously anti-Semitic Maltese officer, the second-in-command to Tony-nominee Derek Smith's Duke Ferenze.
You can view clips of my performance (and swordfighting!) here.
EXPEDIA.COM -
"RON SWANSON"
National Radio Ad - Demo (Voiceover)
May 19, 2011
Role: Ron Swanson
Expedia put together this in-house recording to determine whether they wanted to create a radio spot with Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation).
I booked the spot when I had a terrible cold, and my voice had dropped to a lower register. When I came in to record, the engineer couldn't figure out why I sounded so different than I did on my audition.
THE PILLOW BOOK
Workshop Production
June 4, 2011
by Anna Moench, dir. Mike Klar
with Kristen Harlow and Claire Gresham
Kids With Guns
I adore Anna's play, which made this particular project a bittersweet experience.
Kristen, Claire and I were hired to workshop Kids With Guns' upcoming production, with the understanding we'd likely be used in it. After our workshop, however, Mike stepped down from directing the show, and the new director, eager to put his own mark on the production, brought on an entirely new cast.
director Mike Klar
director Daniela Topol
METHODS OF REACHING EXTREME ALTITUDES
Closed Reading
June 15, 2011
by Gary Winter, dir. Daniela Topol
with Carlo Alban, Brian D. Coats, Crystal Finn, Andrew Garman, Maria-Christina Oliveras, and Jocelyn Kuritsky
Role: Fritz Lang
The Lark Play Development Center
WALTZ FOR ROSEMARY
Staged Reading
June 29, 2011
by Michelle Meyers, dir. Cara Scarmack
with Philip Callen, Mathilde Dratwa, Priscilla Holbrook, Kevin Hoffman, and Jon Krupp
Role: Alec
New Dramatists
“ALEC: I mean, like, if we were married, I totally wouldn’t have. Because she would have seen the ring and she’s a Christian.
CLAIRE: How could you? How could you do this to me?
ALEC: And I used protection. Because I care about you.”
Alec was not the most sensitive guy I’ve ever played.
playwright Michelle Meyers
Luke Harlan in HOME/SICK
HOME/SICK
Production
July 6-August 3, 2011
written and created by the ensemble, dir. Jess Chayes
with Edward Bauer, Kate Benson, Anna Abhau Elliott, Luke Harlan, and Emily Perkins
Role: Tommy
The Assembly @ The Collapsable Hole
Hands down as ambitious, complex, personal, political and satisfying as anything I’ve ever done, HOME/SICK chronicles the rise and fall of the bomb-making radicals in the Weather Underground.
I co-wrote the play with my Assembly compatriots, in a process guided by Jess.
Reviews: New York Times (Critic’s Pick), Backstage (Critic’s Pick)
PORT TWILIGHT
Closed Workshop
July 13, 2011
by Len Jenkin, dir. David Chapman
Studio 42
Studio 42 was founded to produce unstageable plays. When its artistic director Moritz von Stuelpnagel became a successful Broadway director, the company unfortunately went the way of the Dodo.
You can read a short account of our process here.
playwright Len Jenkin
playwright Damon Krometis
RENEGADO
Closed Reading
August 10, 2011
by Damon Krometis
with Irene Lucio, Carl Howell, Adam Kern, Daniel Mendoza, and Brendan Titley
Role: Gazzet
A dark satire in verse.
“I’m nothing but a servant in your house, sir,” ran one of my early lines,
”Where wealth comes first before all things
Except for God himself.”
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Independent Film (Short)
September 8-16, 2011 (Principal Photography)
written and directed by Marco Seeli
Inspired by the Dogme 95 Manifesto, Marco shot this film himself with a handheld camera (and no additional sound or lighting equipment) on location on a subway platform. The only other actor in the film was a homeless man Marco knew from the neighborhood.
actor Frank Harts
HUNKY DORY
Staged Reading
October 12, 2011
by Aaron Wigdor Levy, dir. Jess Chayes
with Edward Bauer, Frank Harts, Brian Hastert, Melissa Miller, and Emily Perkins
Role: Wade Renzler
Extant Arts
I played Wade Renzler, an ultra-conservative shock jock determined to bring down "The Liberal Elite" by any means necessary. His crusade ultimately inspires a right-wing vigilante to kidnap an innocent man (Frank Harts).
I drew on Renzler when I voiced a conservative radio announcer in Goldor $ Mythyka a year-and-a-half later.
LEGEND OF THE WORD
Concept Recording (Musical)
October 18-21, 2011
book and lyrics by Isaac Klein, music by James Stewart
with Will Connell, Andrew Pastides, Ashley Robinson, and Trevor Vaughn
Isaac and James wrote a new creation myth, a cross between J.R.R. Tolkien’s origin epic The Silmarillion, the rock musical Hair, the hip hop anthem “Ready to Die,” and the book of Genesis.
writer/director Isaac Klein
Emily Perkins and Ben in the promo image for Salamander Leviathan
ANT FEST -
SALAMANDER LEVIATHAN
Performance (Musical)
October 31, 2011
by Krista Knight and Barry Brinegar, dir. Jess Chayes
with Dan Moyer, Emily Louise Perkins (Gracie), Alison Scaramella, and Steve Stout (The Devil)
Role: Salamander Leviathan
Ars Nova
We teched this full-length musical in a single afternoon.
I played the title character, a lonely lumberjack who makes a deal with The Devil (Steve Stout) to find love. Love soon arrives in the form of a beautiful woman (Emily Louise Perkins), but suffering and death are not far behind.
It was a hell of a lot of fun.
FALL WRITING RETREAT
Closed Workshop
November 5, 2011
new plays by Sevan Greene and Augusto Federico Amador
The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group
One of the most exclusive writers groups in NYC, EWG features some incredible playwrights.
Augusto Amador
Savan Greene
HOME/SICK
Benefit Performance (Excerpt)
November 13, 2011
written and created by the ensemble, dir. Jess Chayes
with Edward Bauer, Kate Benson, Anna Abhau Elliott, Luke Harlan, and Emily Perkins
Role: Tommy
The Culture Project, 2011 Benefit
We remounted scenes from our show for a fundraiser for The Culture Project, which we hoped would remount HOME/SICK itself.
COMPANY
Regional Production (Musical)
November 30-December 18, 2011
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth
dir. Leslie Unger
with Erik Agle, Jennifer Lauren Brown, Amanda Bruton, Scott Caron, Brian Detlafs, Hillary Ekwall, Keisha Gilles, Ryan Speakman, Meredith Swanson, and Victoria Thornsbury
Role: Larry
Playhouse on Park (West Hartford, CT)
Company marked my first Sondheim musical since college, where I played the title role in Sweeney Todd, directed Assassins, and even ran a spotlight for A Little Night Music.
Sondheim’s musicals have staggering range, depth, and wit, and I'm always grateful to work on anything he's written.
(photograph by David B. Newman)
playwright Tariq Hamami
THE ONE, PERCY ENT
Staged Reading
December 13, 2011
by Tariq Hamami, dir. David Bruin
with Christopher Cartmill, Virginia Krull, and Austin Mitchell
Snapdragon
Tariq’s play featured an evil-minded billionaire (Chris Cartmill) who turns out to be a literal bloodsucker.