Tony Tsendeas

Pertinent Experience

Theater Faculty

Baltimore School for the Arts, 1990-Present

Artistic Director

Action Theater, 1991-2001

Acting/Directing/Playwriting

• Maryland Institute College of Art
• Alvin Ailey Camp
• Young Audiences
• American Red Cross
• Summer Arts Institute
• Young People’s Summer Stock

• Johns Hopkins University
• University of Maryland, Baltimore City
• University of Maryland, College Park
• Baltimore Opera
• Maryland Arts Camp
• Maryland State Arts Council

Directing (partial)

• WittenbergRep Stage
• WittenbergBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity Stage
• MacbethBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity Stage
• The Complete Works of William ShakespeareBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity Stage
• Julius CaesarBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity Stage
• OthelloBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity Stage
• The Cask of AmontilladoPoe Birthday Celebration
• Six Characters in Search of an AuthorHood College
• Interview (Van Italle)Young People’s Summer Stock, University of Maryland
• Love for WordsBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity Stage
• SeussicalYoung People’s Summer Stock
• Reverse PsychologyAxis Theatre
• Action CabaretsAction Theatre
• Beckettland (Beckett)Action Theatre, Edinburgh/Netherlands Tour
• The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariAction Theatre
• The American DreamAction Theatre
• The Madman and the NunAction Theatre, Theatre Project
• Double “O” X-masAction Theatre, Theatre Project
• The Artificial JungleAction Theatre, Theatre Project

Related Experience

Playwright (plays produced or published)

• The Adventures of FelixAction Theatre, Theatre Project
• NextAction Theatre
• Action CabaretsAction Theatre , Various Venues
• Learn Not to BurnAmerican Red Cross, School Touring Production
• Don’t Kill Each OtherAmerican Red Cross, School Touring Production
• HIV ShowAmerican Red Cross, School Touring Production
• A Wrinkle In Time (adaptation)Baltimore School for the Arts
• The Cask of Amontillado (adaptation)Poe Birthday Celebration

Screenplay

• The Rain King (w/ Steve Gilian)

Acting Experience (partial)

• Twelfth NightBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity StageSir Toby Belch
• The RavenBaltimore Symphony OrchestraPoe
• CSI: BeethovenBaltimore Symphony OrchestraBeethoven
• All’s Well that Ends WellBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity StageParoles
• The TempestBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity StageCaliban
• Mary StuartCenter StageAlberstine
• The Cherry OrchidRoundhouse TheaterStranger
• HamletBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity StageClaudius
• Chekhov ShowBaltimore School for the ArtsTrigorin
• Rocket to the MoonWoolley Mammoth/Theater JCooper
• Much Ado About NothingBaltimore Shakespeare Festival, BSF Equity StageBenedick
• The CrucibleEveryman TheatreJudge Hawthorn
• BeckettlandEdinburgh Fringe FestivalVarious
• Poe Live!Regional Touring ProductionTell Tale Heart
• The Madman & the NunAction TheatreWalpurg
• The Artficial JungleAction TheatreChester
• Double “O’ X-MasAction TheatreSatan
• Free At LastColumbia Arts FestivalVarious
• MacBettNew Century Theatre Co.Banquo/Malcom
• American BuffaloAction TheatreTeach
• Zoo StoryAftermath ProductionsJerry

Film/Video/Voiceover Experience

• The WireHBOHomeless Man
• Wandering SoulsMarc Steiner Show, Center for Emerging MediaVarious
• Edgar Allen Poe’s The RavenNational Public Radio, The SignalVoiceover
• Mutiny on the BountyPBSMaster Fry
• Fall Before ParadiseIndependent Feature/Eden ProductionsNate
• The Pit and the PendulumThe Learning Channel/Cronkite Ward ProductionsNarrator
• Ledo Pizza CommericalTruckstop ProductionsVarious
• Profiles in FlightThe Discovery Channel: Six-Part SeriesVoiceover
• Haunted BaltimoreThe History Channel/Greystone ProductionsPoe
• The Lafayette EscadrilleThe Discovery Wings ChannelVoiceover
• Autopsy IVHBOBodysnatcher
• Homicide: Life on the StreetNBCGary Swirn
• Free at LastNational Public RadioVarious
• Her AlibiFeature Film/Warner Bros. PictureJuggler/Clown
• Tories and RebelsIndependent Feature/ Chris New ProductionVarious

Special Skills

Rapier, dagger, juggling, Southern, Standard British, Cockney, French & Russian dialects