CURRENTLY! Stephen portrays Joe Harris in CIVIL
WAR VOICES
Midtown Theatre Festival, The June Havoc Theatre running 7/24-8/1.
UPCOMING! Stephen has joined the cast of
THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL
Most Recently! Stephen played Vice Principal Panch in
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
at Florida Studio Theatre from 10/09-1/10
Stephen Hope was most recently seen in New York as "the personable Fr. Cal Porter" delivering "a tasty Michael Corelone moment" in Off-Broadway's ASCENSION. The New York Times called Edmund De Santis' dark comedy "a clever comic drama with satisfyingly acidic attitude, considerable passion and a killer ending."
Prior to ASCENSION, Stephen's most recent credits ranged from Kerry Max Cook in THE EXONERATED (garnering a Sarasota Magazine Best Actor in a Play nomination) to the indomitable Sylvia St. Croix in RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL (nominated as Best Actor in a Musical by both Sarasota Magazine and The Herald Tribune) to one of a satirical trio in THE RISE AND FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ACCORDING TO TOM LEHRER and the leader of the Rat Pack quartet of MY WAY.
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Other New
York credits include the Bistro Award winning FAIRY TALES at both
The Duplex and WPA Theatre, the 25th Anniversary
production of DAMES
AT SEA as Lucky
opposite Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth's Ruby at the Harold Clurman Theatre, HOMOSEXUAL
ACTS for
Sourceworks Theatre, RABBONI at the
Perry Street Theatre,
and a summer spent on the Great Stage of Radio City in MANHATTAN SHOWBOAT.
A creative
relationship with playwright/composer/lyricist Bob Ost has led to
Stephen's New York performances as Michael
Kravitz i n A
GLASS OF WATER, John
Mauree in BREEDERS, and Mr. Ost's revues EVERYBODY'S GETTING
INTO THE ACT and MAC
nominated NOT
QUITE WHAT YOU EXPECTED. Other
notable NYC projects
include Prior Walter in Circle East Centered Margins Festival's ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA, the New York Theatre Festival production of BIRDS OF PARADISE, and twice as James Barrie, the title role, in Ron Palillo's THE LOST BOY.
On regional
stages, Stephen has been seen as Billy Buck Chandler in MY ONE AND ONLY (nominated
for Philadelphia's
Barrymore Award as Best Actor in a Musical), Padre Perez in MAN OF LA MANCHA, Mordred
in CAMELOT, SOPHISTICATED
LADIES' Hipster, SHOW BOAT's Frank
Schultz, Bill Calhoun in KISS
ME KATE, FUNNY
GIRL's Eddie
Ryan and PAINT
YOUR WAGON's
banjo-playing dreamer, Jake Whippany. |