Richard Sewell

Actor's contact info (email and phone or agent):

rcsewell@colby.edu
207-872-8767

Actor's age range:

66-70, 71-75, 76-80

Actor's Unions:

AEA

Actor's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)

Ethnicity: New England Irish
Height: 5-9
Weight: 185
Eyes: Blue Hair: Grey
Suit: 44
Shoe: 10.5

Skills: Prop design and construction, set design, mask maker; artist; intermediate (US Army) Russian speaker; gardener, veteran.

Actor's Performance Skills:

Card Playing - Hearts, Card Playing - Rummy, Swimming - general ability

Recent acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):

Representative Stage Roles:
Most recent:
Metamorphosis, Selenus & Philemon, guest artist: Colby College, L. Conner, dir.
He Who Gets Slapped, Baron Auguste, guest artist: Colby College, K. Syssoyeva, dir.
Life Is A Dream, Old King, guest artist: Colby College, Mary Shaw, dir.
I Take Your Hand in Mine, Anton Chekhov, Maine Hum. Council, K. Gordon, dir.
Death of a Salesman, Ben, ACAT Theater, Howard Koonce, dir.
Other select roles:
Lear, King Lear, The Theater at Monmouth, Ted Davis, dir.
The Tempest, Prospero, The Theater at Monmouth, K. Gordon, dir.
She Stoops to Conquer, Old Marlowe, The Theater at Monmouth, J. Kissel, dir.
The Masterbuilder, Halvard Solness, The Theater at Monmouth, Ted Davis, dir.

On-Camera Work:
Justice is Mind, Joseph (Lead), Affidavit Productions/Mark Lund
The Eighteenth Hour, Oswald Simm (Lead), Catharsis Productions, Damien Veilleux, dir. (Sci-fi/fantasy, releasing July, 2012)
The Sense of the Scene, theater director, MPBN/ Maine Humanities Council
READ!, Shakespeare, MPBN/ Maine Humanities Council

Other work, hobbies, charities, etc. in which this actor is involved:

*Co-Founder/ Artistic Director, The Theater At Monmouth, Me, 1970-1995
Season selection, direction, casting, crew hires for AEA SPT

* Emeritus Professor of Theater, Colby College, Waterville, ME, 1974-2003
Taught, acting, directing, playwrighting; directed 2-3 productions/year

* Director, for over 40 years
Community theater productions from G&S to modern political dramas

* Playwright
Productions in NYC, LA, Las Vegas.

VOICE ARTISTS ONLY [you must have a professinal demo to upload]: llustrative 1-word descriptions for this actor's voice (e.g. conversational, announcer, warm, etc.):

Native Maine accent, English accents, announcer. Baritone.
Russian accent and conversation.