1987-present - Verge, Founder and Artistic Director
Verge is a multimedia performance group which uses music and computers to create
theatrical comedy shows and products. We have performed all over New York City,
and produced our own CD, entitled "Little Idiot", in our own digital,
fully automated MIDI recording studio. It has been advertised nationally on Comedy Central. WeirdosTV is currently airing Saturday nights at 11:30 pm on Manhattan cable TV. In 2008 Verge celebrated their twentieth anniversary.
Duties include: musical composition/arrangements (using MIDI/digital audio),
booking gigs, advertising (including design and logistics), lighting design,
vocal training, desktop publishing, database management, video editing/processing, maintenance of electronic equipment.
Performance/Directing Experience:
| Role | Production | Director or Venue |
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| 2011 |
| Officer McCork |
The Ryan Case 1873 | LiveIn Theatre |
| 2010 |
| Emcee |
Talent Night (Horror Festival Promos) | Sideshow Pictures |
| Ringleader |
Nunky Gruel | Yehuda Duenyas |
| Macheath |
Chautauqua! | Public Theater - NTUSA, Yehuda Duenyas/John Carrafa |
| 2009 |
| Director/Composer |
Hot Babes in Toyland | Players Theatre |
| Fosse Dancer |
Chautauqua! | P.S. 122 - NTUSA, Yehuda Duenyas/Faye Driscoll |
| 2008 |
| Director/Composer |
The House of Celestial Experiments | Metropolitan Playhouse Hawthorne Festival |
| Ringleader/Choreographer |
Tom Swirly's Psych-o-delic Circus | Under Lucky Cheng's |
| 2007 |
| Director/Composer |
Anna Karenina | myself |
| Director/Composer |
A Marvelous Curiosity | Metropolitan Playhouse Twain Festival |
| 2006 |
| Uncle Bus |
A Melody Looking (Hong Kong) | Leon Lai |
| Insane Ron (lead) |
Axe Team commercial | Michael Sugarman |
| Director/Composer |
Mr. E.A. Poe's New Year's Bash | Metropolitan Playhouse Poe Festival |
| 2005 | | Voice on the tape |
Sound Barrier | Amir Naderi | | 2004 |
| Gus (lead) |
Food For Thought (Project Greenlight submission) | Chris Davis |
| Rev Arthur Wendel |
Alphabet City | Alex Roe | |
2003 |
| Woody Allen |
Hollywood Harem | myself |
| 2002 |
| Big Al/Press |
Passin' Thru | Donna Drake |
| Homeless Man |
Six Tulips (35mm short) | Duane Langley |
| Womb Doctor |
Womb (TV Pilot) | Elizabeth Fodor |
| Comatose Man (featured) |
Awakenings" Coca-Cola commercial | Michael Sugarman |
| Victor |
The Magic Whore | myself |
| 2000 |
| Lucifer |
Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret) | myself |
| 1998-2003 |
| Caliban |
William Shakespeare's Haunted House | Mark Greenfield |
| 1998 |
| P.T. Barnum | Battle of the Dead Celebs | myself |
| 1997 |
| Richard III |
William Shakespeare's Haunted House | Mark Greenfield |
| 1996 |
Polonius/Gloucester/
Ghost of Hamlet's Father |
William Shakespeare's Haunted House | Mark Greenfield |
| 1992 |
the bald guy who gets
his testicles stepped on |
The Violinist | Rod McLucas |
| 1991 |
| Beelzebub | The Evil Elder of Eldridge Street |
Rod McLucas |
| 1989 |
| The Wizard | Journey to Oz | myself |
| 1987 |
| Stump Towers | Where's Dick? | Anne Bogart |
| Aegeus/Flute | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Kevin
Kuhlke |
| Solange | The Maids | Clay Snider |
| 1986 |
| Robert Wilson | Danton's Death | Anne Bogart |
| Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | Jeff Halpern |
| 1985 |
| M1 | Play | Clay Snider |
| Woyzeck | Woyzeck | Clay Snider |
| 1984 |
| Headmaster Sunstroke | Spring Awakening | Anne Bogart |
| Gower | Pericles | myself |
| 1983 |
| Luther Billis | South Pacific | Anne Bogart |
Other skills:
Piano, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Magic, Ventriloquism, voice-overs, lighting, (also extensive computer skills - digital audio and video, ProTools, Final Cut, Premiere)
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