- (1971) Created the role of Roger, the "Mooning King of Rydell High," in the world premiere of the Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey musical "Grease", which opened Feb. 5 at the Kingston Mines Theatre Company in Chicago. Guy Barile directed and Ronna Kaye choreographed the cast that included Hedda Lubin (Frenchy), James Canning (Doody), Sheila Ceaser (Jan), Bill Cervetti (Miller), Polly Pen (Patti), Bruce Hickey (Kenickie), Marilu Henner (Marty), Steve Munro (Eugene), Leslie Goto (Sandy), Doug Stevenson (Danny), Barbara Munro (Cha Cha), George Lopez (Bum), Susan Williams (Rizzo), Judy Brubaker (Miss Lynch) and Gerald Bolnick (Sonny).
- (1982) Was one of the authors of the play "E/R (Emergency Room)", a production by Chicago's Organic Theater Co. that became the basis for the Norman Lear sitcom of the 1980s starring Elliott Gould. Stuart Gordon directed the original production of the play whose run ended two years later at the Forum Theatre in Summit, IL. The original cast: Gary Houston, Richard Fire, Tom Towles, Zaid Farid, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Felicity LaFortune, Dennis Vero, Christopher Michael Moore, Anne Nygren, Bruce A. Young, Jack Wallace, Melinda Skilondz, Lily Monkus and Shuko Akune. The other authors were Stuart Gordon, Ronald Berman, M.D., Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Tom Towles, Bruce A. Young, Zaid Farid and Richard Fire.
- (1974) Wrote the play "Mighty Aphrodite" (no connection with the Woody Allen film) as a companion piece for Terrence McNally's "Sweet Eros" and directed, produced and presented both plays in a friend's North Side Chicago apartment.
- (2001) Played Prospero in Chicago in European Repertory Co.'s production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." With Heather Prete as Miranda.
- (1977) Accepted the Joseph Jefferson Award for "Overall Technical Design" as director of the highly touted Chicago premiere of Peter Handke's play "Kaspar", with the late J. Pat Miller in the title role, for the Stage 2 series of Goodman Theatre. Others in the cast: Mark Hutter, Randall Smith, Christopher Raynolds, Robert Strom and Harold Yee. Maher Ahmad designed the set. Michael Merritt manned the follow spot.
- (2002) Played Dad opposite Erin Neal's Daughter in the U.S. premiere of Enda Walsh's play "Bedbound" at the Summer Festival of Contemporary Irish Plays produced in Taos, N.M., by the Sage Theatre Group in August. Cecil O'Neal directed. The same production was revived by Fusion Theater in Albuquerque the following year.
- (1977) Directed the first production to open in Chicago of the then Highland Park, Illinois-based Steppenwolf Theatre Co. The play was Wallace Shawn's "Our Late Night", with company members Joan Allen, H.E. Bacchus, Moira Sinise, Terry Kinney, John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf and Alan Wilder.
- (2000) Portrayed Nelson Algren in John Susman's play "Nelson & Simone" that premiered that fall at Chicago's Live Bait Theatre and dramatized Algren's love affair with French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir played by Rebecca Covey. Jean-Paul Sartre was played by Fred Wellisch. Richard Cotovsky directed.
- (2007) Nominated Best Supporting Actor in southeast Michigan's Wilde Awards for his portrayal of national Democratic Party chairman Robert S. Strauss at Lansing's BoarsHead Theater in Kristine Thatcher's play, directed by Thatcher, about U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-TX), "Voice of Good Hope."
- (1998) Played Saul Alinsky in Herb Schapiro's play "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky," with Nadirah Bost and Susie Griffith and directed by Pam Dickler, for Terrapin Theater.
- (1993) Nominated Best Actor in the Joseph Jefferson Awards for his portrayal of a blinded New York cab driver in the Jim Geoghan play, "Triple Exposure," later retitled "Light Sensitive," at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago. Maureen Gallagher and Gary Brichetto were also featured. Terry McCabe directed.
- (1996) Portrayed William Blake in the Eliot Hayes play "Blake: Innocence and Experience" at Writers' Theater in Glencoe, Illinois. With Karen Woditsch as Blake's muse and angel. Set design by Rick Paul, direction by Michael Halberstam. In the same venue shortly later that year portrayed Ring Lardner in the Jim Sullivan play "Damon, Ring and F. Scott." Directed by Sullivan.
- (2010) Played a character based on Alfred Hitchcock in the Joseph Goodrich stage thriller "Panic" at Peninsula Players in Fish Creek, WI. Also in the cast: McKinley Carter, Erica Elam, Kevin McKillip and Carmen Roman. Directed by Kristine Thatcher (aka Kristie Thatcher).
- (2011) Played Gustave in the Tom Stoppard translation, titled "Heroes," of French playwright Gérald Sibleyras' play "Le Vent des Peupliers" at Stormfield Theatre in Lansing, MI. Kristie Thatcher (aka Kristine Thatcher) directed.
- (2012) Played Richard Ehrlich in Fusion Theater's production of Donald Margulies' play "Time Stands Still," performed March 1-17 in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Others in the cast: Kate Costello, Jacqueline Reid and Gregory Wagrowski.
- (1978) Directed world premiere of Alan Gross' play about telephone solicitors, "The Phone Room," for the Pary Production Company. Cast: Bernard Beck, Chuck Bailey, Larry Hart, Ira Goldstein, Kenneth L. Green (later replaced by Alan Felgenhauer) and Jeff Marks.
- (1973) Played Len in Edward Bond's drama "Saved" in Cecil O'Neal's production for the Kingston Mines Theatre Company in Chicago. With Jeanette Goldberg, Gary Koppel, Eugene Kroschel, Penny Reynolds, Dan Ziskie, Steve Wysocki and George Lopez. With singing throughout by Ina Jaffe.
- (2009) Acted in Theresa Rebeck's suspense play "Mauritius" at Northlight Theater in Skokie, IL, with Anne Adams, Lance Baker, Daniel Kuhlman and Suzanne Lang. Rick Snyder directed.
- (2014) Play: Christopher in "Tribes" by Nina Raine, produced by Fusion Theater. Also with Caitlin Aase, Peter Diseth, Kate Mura, Levi Shrader and Laurie Thomas. Jacqueline Reid directed.
- (2008, 2009) In Chicago's Chopin Theatre played Serebriakov in Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in two mountings directed by Zeljko Djukic and produced by the TUTA theatre company. The 2008 production was hailed the best in the city that year by the Chicago Reader.
- (1993) In Chicago he played Lemuel Gulliver in Organic Theater Company's "Gulliver's Last Travels," Lawrence Bommer's stage adaptation of less-known chapters of Jonathan Swift's satire "Gulliver's Travels." Others in the cast were Jane Blass, J. David Blazevich, Lavonne Byers, Julie Greenberg, Teigh McDonough, Guy Massey, Steve Herson, William O'Connor, Melody Rae, Jon Thompson and Eric Winzenried. Steve Scott directed.
- (1983) Was Capt. Charlie Moore in the stage adaptation of Joe Haldeman's allegorical science-fiction novel "The Forever War." Also in the cast: Alex Kerr, Linda Kimbrough, Richard Lavin, J. Pat Miller, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon and Bruce A. Young. Stuart Gordon directed.
- (1990) Acted in the Philip Reed two-hander about police reporters, "Nightside," at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater. With Brahman Salem. Costumes by Glenn Billings. Direction by Dennis Zacek.
- (August 2015) Played Serebriakov in Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" and (Aug. 2016) Shamrayev in Chekhov's "The Seagull" in UV Theater Project productions held at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL.
- (2016) Played Captain Falcon in "Rutherford's Travels," a stage adaptation by Ilesa Duncan and David Barr III of Charles Johnson's National Book Award-winning novel "Middle Passage" for Pegasus Theatre in Chicago. With Breon Arzell, Osiris Khepera, Darren Lee Jones, Andrew Malone, Ron Quade, Nelson Rodriguez, Tiffany Renee Johnson, Naima Hebrail Kidjo, Heather Chrisler and David Fehr. Ilesa Duncan directed.
- (October 30, 2017) Played the Charles Laughton role of Sir William Porterhouse in a staged reading of the screenplay for 1932's "The Old Dark House" presented by Films For the Ear and directed by Nate Herman at City Lit Theater in Chicago.
- (1992) Played filmmaker Stuart Clarke in Doug Lucie's political drama "Fashion" in the final production by Chicago's Body Politic Theatre though presented at the Chopin Theatre. Also in the cast were Paul Boyer as Paul Cash, Belinda Bremner as Liz Scoular, Daniel J. Bryant as Robin Gingham, Donald Brearley as Eric Bright, David Nava as Howard Lipton, Kristy Munden as Amanda Clarke, Mat McGinnis as Dooley and Gina Grimes as Gillian Huntley.
- (Summer, 1967) At the age of 20 made his professional theatre debut as the octogenarian Giles Corey in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" at Arena Fair Summer Theatre in Wooster, OH.
- (February 4, 2017) Played reclusive novelist Henry Percival in Kurt McGinnis Brown's two-hander "The Official Biography" in a staged reading at Chicago Dramatists. With Demetria Thomas as a dogged researcher Xan Smith and directed by Andrea Dymond. (2023) Played Henry Percival again in the same play with Shariba Rivers as Xan Smith in a zoom held by the Ubiquitous Players of Chicago.
- (January 16, 2004 - February 29, 2004) Portrayed early 19th Century Ohio University president John Wilson in Victory Gardens Theater's world premiere of Charles Smith's "Free Man of Color." Also with Shelley Delaney and Anthony Fleming III. Andrea Dymond directed. Following the Victory Gardens run it was performed at Governors State University in University Park, IL, and Ohio University in Athens, OH.
- (October 2, 1981 - November 8, 1981) Was McCue--based on real-life Chicago reporter Leroy "Buddy" McHugh--in Goodman Theatre's production of Hecht-MacArthur's "The Front Page," with William H. Macy as Hildy Johnson and Colin Stinton as Walter Burns. Also in the cast: Jack Wallace, Roger Mueller, Ted Raymond, Guy Barile, Dennis Kennedy, Rob Riley, Jerry Tullos, Marji Bank, Kathryn Joosten, Barbara Robertson, John Mohrlein and Bonnie Sue Arp. Michael Maggio directed.
- (1991) Portrayed U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Foran in "The Chicago Conspiracy Trial," adapted from transcripts and produced in Chicago by Remains Theater. Also with George Murdock as Judge Julius Hoffman, Daniel Blinkoff as Tom Hayden, Del Close as David Dellinger, Scott Lowell as Rennie Davis, Bruce Orendorf as Jerry Rubin, David Pasquesi as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Saslow as John Froines, Eric Siegel as Lee Weiner, Ed Wheeler as Bobby Seale, Bruce Jarchow as William M. Kunstler, David Alan Novak as Leonard Weinglass, Gary Wilmes as Stuart Albert, Larry Neumann Jr. as Richard G. Schultz, Dale Calandra as Allen Ginsberg and with the additional participation of John McCormack, Peter Reinemann, Molly Reynolds, Deane Clark, Joel Pownall, Paul Tinsley, Marjie Rynearson, Kara Zediker, Shulie Cowen, K.K. Dodds, Reginald C. Hayes, Mary Luby, Lindsay Porter, Brian Mendes, Britton Walker, Geoffrey MacKinnon, Michael Shepperd, Scott Cummins, Matt Robison, David L. Sinkus and Marjorie Synakiewicz. Frank Condon directed.
- (Fall, 2016) His short story "Natural Leader" appeared in Issue 15 of Catamaran Literary Reader.
- (2014-22) Chicago Quarterly Review published his non-fiction piece "Class Notes" and his short stories "Gateway," "Growths," "Audition" and "Weight."
- (1989) Played the title role, Arthur Goldman, in Robert Shaw's Holocaust drama "The Man in the Glass Booth" at Next Theater in Evanston, IL. Also in the cast: David Alan Novak, Morgan McCabe, Anne Heekin, Willard Green, Steve Juergens, Glendon Gabbard and Harry Althaus. Terry McCabe directed.
- (Sept. 13-19, 2018) Played John Adams in the Howard Ginsberg play "Jefferson & Adams" presented by The Shakespeare Project of Chicago. With Michael J. Mitchell as Jefferson and Erin Sloan as Abigail Adams. Peter Garino directed.
- (Sept., 2007) Played Crofts in "Mrs. Warren's Profession" starring Paula Prentiss and her daughter Prentiss Benjamin. With Ken Beachler, Jack Moran and Paul Murphy. James Glossman directed the production at BoarsHead Theatre in Lansing, MI.
- (1993) Played the father of a young man who joined a snake-handling cult in John Darago's play "Charisma," produced by the Next Theatre Company in Evanston, IL. With Nathan Anderson as the son, Linnea Todd Sherman (then Linnea Todd) as his mother, Terry Green, Nicholas Kusenko, Susan McLaughlin, Chris Farrell and Dawn Bach. John Carlile directed.
- (December 2021 - February 2022) Played pots and pans peddler Rutherford Selig in Goodman Theatre's revival of August Wilson's play "Gem of the Ocean." With Lisa Gaye Dixon (Aunt Ester), Sharif Atkins (Citizen) Wardell Julius Clark (Citizen in the second half of the run), James A. Williams (Solly Two Kings), A.C. Smith (Eli), Sydney Charles (Black Mary) and Kelvin Roston Jr. (Caesar). Chuck Smith directed. Linda Buchanan designed the set. Costume design by Evelyn Danner. Lighting design by Robert Perry. Sound design by Pornchanok (Nok) Kanchanabanca. Projection design by Mike Tutaj.
- (June 2010) In a fundraiser for the newly forming Stormfield Theatre in Lansing, MI, he played Leo in a staged reading of Jeffrey Sweet's play "The Value of Names" with John Peakes (as Benny) and Dana Brazil (as Norma) in the Red Cedar Friends Meeting House. Stormfield founder and artistic director Kristine Thatcher staged the event.
- (Sept., 2008) Appeared in Thomas Gibbons' play "Permanent Collection" at BoarsHead Theatre in Lansing, MI. The cast: Michael J. Mitchell, Alan Bomar Jones, Dana Brazil, Valerie Jemerson and Monica Sanders. Kristine Thatcher directed.
- (1989) He acted in Arthur Miller's play "After the Fall" at the National Jewish Theater in the Mayer Kaplan JCC in Skokie, IL. The cast included John Mahoney, Lisa Dodson, Rondi Reed, Bradley Mott, Linnea Todd Sherman (as Linnea Todd), Gary Brichetto, Si Osborne, Jessica Grossman, Laura Gordon, Jenny Halliday, Mary Mulligan and Stephanie Galfano. Sheldon Patinkin directed. Robert Shook was the lighting designer.
- (November 2006 - December 22, 2006) Played Chris Christopherson in Eugene O'Neill's drama "Anna Christie" at The Cell for Albuquerque's Fusion Theatre. With Anna Felix as Anna and Justin Lenderking as Mat. Laurie Thomas directed.
- (1991) In Chicago played railroad car magnate George M. Pullman in Organic Theater's world premiere production of Jeffrey Sweet's epic drama about Pullman, "American Enterprise." Wes Savick directed. Others in the cast: Michael Krawic, Larry Russo, Tonray Ho, Juan Ramírez, Edmund Wyson, Chris Farrell, Philip East, Peter Garino, Colin K. Jones, Paula Harrigan, McKinley Johnson and Jamie O'Reilly.
- (August 1999 - October 1999) Played the abusive dad Green Sparks in Seanachai Theatre Company's world premiere of Coby Goss' historical Arkansas drama "Marked Tree" in Chicago's Theatre Building. Scott Cummins directed the cast: Erin Philyaw as Amanda Sparks, Matt Gibson as Arthur Tillman, Michael Grant as Preacher Sykes, Catherine O'Connor as Edna Hattabaugh, Brian Amidei as Mr. Theodore and the Sheriff, Coby Goss (billed as Coburn Goss) as Bobby Phelps, John Dunleavy as I. E. Tillman, Karen Tarjan as May Tillman and Peter DeFaria as Earl Bolden.
- (1991) Played Buckingham in Shakespeare's "Richard III" at Oak Park Festival Theatre in Oak Park, IL. Terry McCabe directed a cast that included Tom Mula as Richard, Lisa Dodson, Dev Kennedy, Joseph Fedorko, David Nava, Jennifer Halliday, Nancy Nickel, Ajai Naidu and Dale Calandra.
- (1998) Played Claudius in "Hamlet" produced by the Shakespeare Project of Chicago. Maureen Gallagher and Todd Hissong were in the cast.
- (January 17, 1999 - March 20, 1999) In Chicago's Theatre Building he played Jimmy Jack in Seanachai Theater Company's production of Brian Friel's play "Translations" directed by David Cromer. Also in the cast: Kevin Fox as Manus, Karen Tarjan as Sarah, Janet A. Carr as Maire, Brian Baker as Doalty, Ann Noble as Bridget, John Dunleavy as Hugh, Andrew J. Turner as Owen, Lawrence Garner as Capt. Lancey and Coby Goss as Lieut. Yolland.
- (1996) Played Sam Stornant in Kristine Thatcher's drama "Emma's Child" for Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. Others in the cast: Barbara Robertson, David Darlow, Celeste Williams, Rochelle Richelieu, Mary Poole, Julie Pearl, Tom Mula and, as Emma, Jackie Katzman. Terry McCabe directed.
- (1979) Played Thomas Heartfree and Bagshot in Lawrence Bommer's adaptation of the Henry Fielding novel "Jonathan Wild," in a production by Chicago's Organic Theater. Stuart Gordon directed. Also in the cast: Steve Marmer (as Jonathan Wild), Bernard Beck, Richard Fire, Ina Jaffe (later of NPR fame), J. Pat Miller and Maria Ricossa.
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