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SAG-AFTRA / AEA

Height: 5'9"     Weight: 165lbs

Film

Evil Things

Lead Dir. Dominic Perez Inception Media Group

Consciousness

Lead Dir. D.C. Marcial NYU Films
Catapult Lead Dir. Nisia Wasilewicz New York Film Academy
Crutched By an Angel Lead Dir. Matt Ray Fairfield U Films
Awkward First Dates Lead Dir. Johnny Rivera TOMA Productions
Safe Passageway Supporting Dir. Miranda Sadjak Columbia U Films

Off-Broadway, NY Theatre

Vanity Fair Jos (u/s, performed) Dir. Eric Tucker The Pearl Theatre Company
Hamlet Hamlet Dir. Eric Ruiter The Ophelia Theatre Group
Richard II Richard II Dir. Emily Snyder Hamlet Isn't Dead
Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3 Henry VI Dir. James Rightmyer Hamlet Isn't Dead
Richard III Clarence / Richmond Dir. Brian Gillespie Hamlet Isn't Dead
Romeo & Juliet Mercutio / Prince / Paris Dir. David Andrew Laws

Hamlet Isn't Dead

King John King John Dir. Rhys Mclelland 

Fools and Kings

After an Earlier Incident Romeo Dir. Luke Leonard

Monk Parrots

       

Regional Theatre

The Winter's Tale Leontes Dir. Chaya Gordon-Bland The South Dakota Shakespeare Festival
How to Pray Lover / et al Dir. John Sowle Bridge Street Theatre, NY
Much Ado About Nothing Don Pedro Dir. Jeri Pitcher Camden Shakespeare Festival, ME
Bum Phillips Jesus Dir. Luke Leonard Monk Parrots, TX
Macbeth (staged reading) Macbeth Dir. Joe Discher The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
The Seagull (workshop) Treplev / Trigorin Dir. Susannah Melone Chekov Salon, ME

Tours

Julius Caesar Brutus  Dir. Erin Hurley The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
Richard II Bolingbroke Dir. Derek Wilson The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
The Learned Ladies Julien Dir. Brian Crowe The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
The Odyssey Odysseus Dir. Georgia McGill Classics on Tour, NYC
Romeo & Juliet Mercutio Dir. Gail Winar Classics on Tour, NYC
Romeo & Juliet Mercutio Dir. Stephen Lantz-Gefroh Long Island Shakespeare Festival
As You Like It Orando Dir. Scott Zotto Long Island Shakespeare Festival
The Tempest Ferdinand Dir. Brian Costello Long Island Shakespeare Festival

International

Third Child: Orestes Revisited Orestes Dir. Maria Porter NYC, Prague and Italy Fringes

EDUCATION - B.F.A. in Acting from Long Island University

Suzuki - 4-year training (Maria Porter); Acting - Stanislavsky/Hagen approaches (Maria Porter, Laura Flanagan); Shakespeare - First Folio approach (Maria Porter, Jonathan Silverstein): Voice - Fitzmaurice (Laura Flanagan) Speech - Linklater/ Skinner (Benjamin Moore, TV/Film - Acting for Camera (David Debesse, Andrew Dolan); Stage Combat - Unarmed/Rapier (David Debesse)
The Mental Game, NYC On Camera Auditioning: Episodics, Feature Films, Sitcoms (Herman Chaves)

SPECIAL SKILLS

Kendo Sensei (Japanese Fencing) - 15 years, Stage Combat - Broadsword, Rapier, Dagger, Unarmed

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Morgan Hooper