GREGORY SIMMONS

Iarbas in Dido, Queen of Carthage. Broadway credits: Tenessee Williams' Not About Nightingales (the Queen, directed by Trevor Nunn, New York premiere in association with London's Royal National Theatre) and Howard Korder's Search and Destroy (Roger), Circle in the Square; John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (with Stockard Channing), Lincoln Center Theatre. Other New York and resident credits include: Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet (Audelco nomination for Best Actor); Tillers (Israel), New York Theatre Workshop; Hamlet (Rosencrantz), Shakespeare Theatre of Washington DC; Black No More (Max), The Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage; Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Shakespeare on the Sound; Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pistol), To Kill a Mockingbird (Tom), Alabama Shakespeare Festival; As You Like It (Silvius), Huntington Theatre; Fences (Corey), Syracuse Stage. Directing credits: Anthony P. Pennino's Italian American Cantos, Abingdon Theatre; Atrainplays, Atrainmusicals, and The Statenislandferryplays, The Neighborhood Playhouse; productions at Playwrights Horizons, EST, The Kaufman, The West Bank Café, Present Company, The AboutFace Theatre Company, The Drilling Company at the 78th Street Lab, The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, among others. His recent stage adaptations include Paul Laurence Dunbar's novel The Uncalled and Aristophanes' The Acharnians, which he directed at Theater Three in 2004. Mr. Simmons is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is a member of The Players.

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