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TELEVISION

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Played Sergeant Mitchell, a State Park Police Officer who is out of his depth and walking Agent Scola through a crime scene on FBI (episode 404: "Know Thyself") on CBS/Paramount+
(Original air date 10/12/21) 


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Went back in time (once again auf Deutsch) to play a German officer in episode 104 of Hunters ("The Pious Thieves") on Amazon Prime. 
(Original air date 2/21/20) 

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Got to break out mein Deutsch to play a German tourist in the season 2 premiere episode of High Maintenance ("Globo") on HBO. 
(Original air date 1/19/18) 

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Had a great time filming this episode of The Blacklist. Available now on demand. 
(Original air date 1/5/17) 

FILM

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Played German Telekom Security Guard in the opening scene with Adam Sandler in the Netflix film HUSTLE (original airdate 6/8/2022) [deleted scene] 

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photo by Edna Leshowitz
A ​ forty-something Brooklyn man rebounds from a long-term relationship with a closeted man [that's who I played] by hooking up with a 23-year-old rugby player he meets on a sex app.
Played at NYC's NEW FEST October 2016 and many other festivals (click on image for festivals and awards)

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IF THE TREES COULD TALK is a short film by writer-director Michael Weinstein that I'm in. It played in the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015 and racked up accolades at festivals around the globe.

A short tale about a young Jewish girl and her family who escape the ghetto and seek refuge in the forest. 
Struggling to survive, their horror is compounded by what may be the girl's ultimate demise. 
Can she be saved by a spiritual force more powerful than we can imagine?


STAGE

2019
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Had a blast playing Grover, et al.  in Eric Overmyer's 
​On the Verge with Retro Productions

at the Gene Frankel Theatre
Closed September 24, 2022
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Embraced the challenge of playing the socially challenged Beane in J CITY Theater's production of John Kolvenbach's Love Song.
​November 7–17, 2019
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Played a clueless professor in Perversity by Elizabeth Gordon, inspired by Tomi Ungerer's 1967 "Eat" poster (below), part of The Art of Protest, Articulate Theater's 5th annual Articulating the Arts.
April 3–6, 2019
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Sat on stage in the audience looking at the audience in Ed Musto's Audience, part of Emerging Artists Spring Festival.
​February 27, 2019

2018
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Had a blast playing The Druggist (a sociopathic pharmacist who also traffics heroin in trade for sexual favors) in Walter Zuk's play The Winners.
Staged reading with Stageplays Theatre Company, produced & directed by Thomas Ferriter
August 5 & 6, 2018

2017
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​This December I'll be back as George Bailey in Cake's 6th annual presentation of the beloved holiday classic—complete with old-time radio sound effects performed live on stage!
December 16, 2017 at the Triad


Teamed up again with CAT MILLER and CAROLINE PRUGH for a two-day workshop of their new play about CLARA IMMERWAHR, the first German woman to receive her PhD, and wife to controversial scientist Fritz Haber. 
October 2017

2016
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​Played David Frost to Mark Hofmaier's excellent Nixon in Morningside Players' Special Election Edition staged reading of FROST/NIXON
October 27–30, 2016

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Played Elliot Cooper in Morningside Players' presentation of Donald Margulies's Pulitzer prize–winning  The Country House 
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May 26–June 12, 2016
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