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Steven
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Biography:
Steven Breese has enjoyed a national and international
acting/directing career that has spanned more than 20 years. An active
member of AEA, SAG and AFTRA, he holds his MFA from California Institute
of the Arts and served as Director of the Acting Program at Texas Christian
University from 1992-1998. Dallas audiences will remember Mr. Breese
from his appearances at The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas (Oberon/Midsummer Night's Dream),
Ft. Worth Shakespeare in the Park
(Petruchio/Taming of the Shrew - click for review),
Dallas Theatre Center (South Pacific, Guys
and Dolls, A Christmas Carol),
Casa Manana
(Tito Merelli/Lend Me a Tenor - click for review,
42nd Street),
and Stage West
(John Proctor
/The Crucible - click for review).
Other nationally recognized theaters at which
Mr. Breese has either acted or directed include: South Coast Repertory
(Costa Mesa, CA), Cleveland Playhouse (Cleveland, OH), Chanhassen Theaters
(Minneapolis, MN), Sherwood Shakespeare Festival (Ventura, CA), American
Heartland Theatre (Kansas City, MO), Forum Theatre (Chicago, IL), The
Royal George Theatre (Chicago, IL), Watertower Theatre (Dallas, TX),
The Operettenhaus (Hamburg, Germany), as well as other regional theaters
and touring companies. Some
of Mr. Breese's most prominent roles include: Rum-Tum-Tugger
in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, Brick/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, John/Oleanna,
Milo Tindle/Sleuth, Dracula/Dracula, Billy Bishop/Billy Bishop Goes to
War, and
Rev. David Lee/The Foreigner.
Some of his most interesting directing assignments include: Romeo and Juliet (click for review), Taming of the Shrew, 1940's Radio Hour (click here for review), Communicating Doors (Alan Ayckbourn), The Diviners, Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas), Our Country's Good (Wertenbaker), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Lion in Winter, Company (Sondheim) and Working (Studs Terkle). Mr. Breese is a prolific and published playwright with more than 25 plays to his credit. Plays currently in publication include, Charactor Assasinations and Doubletake. In addition to Brotherly Love (a romance, premiered at Raven Theater/Chicago, 1998), Mr. Breese has recently completed a new one-act, Painted Cages. In 1998-99 he was commissioned by The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas to write/direct a new work based on Shakespeare's sonnets entitled, Devouring Time. Recent and developing works include The Trial of Hamlet (a classical courtroom drama) and Gesualdo ( an original musical created in collaboration with composer, Blaise Ferrandino). Mr. Breese was chosen to direct the first Russian tour of The Fantastiks. Summer of '99 he directed the critically acclaimed Romeo and Juliet for The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas. Fall of '99 he sailed around the world with the internationally renowned Semester at Sea Program sponsored by the Institute for Shipboard Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Ports of call included Kobe Japan, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Madras and Casablanca. Mr. Breese is currently the Director of Theater at Christopher Newport University located on the Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia. |
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