
Soliloquizing for CenterStage’s Shakespeare Online
What fun to perform in this webisode series in a time of plague… Continue reading Soliloquizing for CenterStage’s Shakespeare Online
What fun to perform in this webisode series in a time of plague… Continue reading Soliloquizing for CenterStage’s Shakespeare Online
Workshopping a Shakespeare monologue with Casting Director Bob Mason… Continue reading Speaking the Speech with Chicago Shakes
Ah, remember The Before Times? Continue reading Bringing the HEAT to acting via Zoom
In my triumphant return to the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, I get the joy of yelling at my fellow actors as their temperamental, libidinous, and sarcastic … Continue reading Losing my mind in Noises Off
Gather around your radio set and stoke your fireplace… Continue reading Solving mysteries in A Murder Most Novel
I’m so thrilled to be working with this excellent company on this world premiere of Kenneth Lin’s hilarious and heartfelt play about the value of life … Continue reading Making Jackalope debut in Life On Paper
My 5th consecutive appearance in The Arc Theatre’s annual 10-minute play festival… Continue reading Returning to the arciTEXT short play fest
That’s right, the masterpiece of one of the best-selling mystery writers of all time, Agatha Christie! The play that opened in London’s West End in 1952 … Continue reading Creeping around in The Mousetrap
Criminality. Violence. Desperation. This new Jeff-Recommended play presented by the Agency Theater Collective is an intense ride, in which I play an alcoholic former Texas sheriff … Continue reading Robbing a bank in Tres Bandidos
God, I love to play a blustering scoundrel… Continue reading Being very manly in The Explorers Club
And it gets weird… Continue reading Returning to the arciTEXT short play festival
Bleeding, thievery, love, grief, sex, and violence. All the good stuff. Continue reading Monologuing in Rhinofest
A trio of actors wake to find themselves chained up in the basement of a psychopathic playwright… Continue reading Being kidnapped in The Basement Company
Well I did it again. Went and auditioned for some theater. Now I’ll be donning tights to play the ghost of John Barrymore, AMERICA’S GREATEST SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR, in the hilarious comedy I Hate Hamlet! Swordfights! Seductions! Soliloquies! Only 6 performances! (What? I know!) Fri 3/10 at 8pm Sat 3/11 at 8pm Sun 3/12 at 3pm Fri 3/17 at 8pm Sat 3/18 at 8pm Sun 3/19 at 3pm All the action happens at Deerfield’s Patty Turner Center. Get your tickets at TheatreD.com. Continue reading Playing the ghost of John Barrymore
How a “good” man gets caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich… Continue reading Performing at the Illinois Holocaust Museum
The truth behind Trump’s presidency, and the intense “special relationship” between these two men… Continue reading Playing Scott Baio in arciTEXT 2017
Enormous scandal and Arbuckle’s three widely publicized trials are explored… Continue reading Defending in Arbuckle’s Rape
Who really killed Von Hinter, and why? Continue reading Defending in The Trial of Herschel Green
I play a dad who wants his son to love sports like he does! ACT-TING! Continue reading Appearing in Orientation Day for PARAGON
“Wicke’s lovely, understated performance of the great genius [is] memorable…” Continue reading Being Albert Einstein in Einstein’s Gift
A mother and a daughter clash over their life choices while Dad tries to start the grill… Continue reading Returning to arciTEXT in The Venutian
I play the incredibly handsome and intelligent prospective groom… Continue reading Reading Rochaleh’s Wedding for Continuum
“Wicke is a haunting portrait of a man trying to find some last shred of dignity within the context of his own choices….”– Chicago Theater Beat (Recommended, 3 Stars) It’s Auschwitz, 1942. I play an actor who has coped with the horrors of the camp by writing a hilarious play in his head, and now he’s wrangling his fellow prisoners to act out his farce, which satirizes the anti-Semitic nonsense of the Dreyfus Affair. But as the play goes on, dark secrets emerge. The prisoners must ask themselves if comedy can truly have meaning in the face of horror. Muse … Continue reading Starring in “Holocaust comedy” Muse of Fire
The 1988 classic holiday action film, and I get to play big bad guy Hans Gruber! Continue reading Being villainous in Die Hard: A Drinking Game