WHAT'S GOING (AND BEEN GOING) ON!
Next Up: THAT'S LIFE, AGAIN! @ FST (til Dec. '11)
Recently: BOBBY & MATT @ Fringe '11, OH, COWARD! @ Peterborough Players
LAUGHING MATTERS @ FST; DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL @ 45 Bleecker;
CIVIL
WAR VOICES @ June Havoc (MITF Outstanding Actor - Musical)
Stephen Hope's most NYC performances include the Fringe 2011 production of BOBBY AND MATT (a Backstage "Critic's Pick" and THEASY.COM's "Best Bet!"), the MITF production of CIVIL WAR VOICES (MITF Outstanding Actor in a Musical), Off-Broadway in THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL, and as Fr. Cal Porter in Off-Broadway's ASCENSION which New York Times described as "a clever comic drama with satisfyingly acidic attitude, considerable passion and a killer ending."
On regional theater stages, Stephen's recent credits range from the ebullient Phineas Taylor Barnum in BARNUM to 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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Additional 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 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.
Other notable NYC projects include performances as Michael
Kravitz in A
GLASS OF WATER, John
Mauree in BREEDERS, the revues EVERYBODY'S GETTING
INTO THE ACT and MAC
nominated NOT
QUITE WHAT YOU EXPECTED (all by Bob Ost), as well as 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 also 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. |