All right, he’s been appearing on local stages a little more than a year, but it’s only over the last season that he’s shown himself to be a truly essential figure in Tampa Bay area theater. He appeared everywhere: at Tampa Rep in The Children’s Hour and Silent Sky, the Silver Meteor Gallery in Tender Napalm, Jobsite Theater in Lebensraum, Tampa Shakespeare Festival in Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing, and American Stage in The Pitmen Painters. In the widely different roles he’s assumed, he’s been consistently excellent — an angry son at one moment, a malicious king at another, and an impish British miner at yet another. How did local theater ever get along without him? —Mark Leib
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2016.


