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jeff essex
actor, voice actor, singer, musician, writer, artist.

member of actors' equitymember of screen actors guild

height: 5'6"/168 cm · weight: 160 lb/72 kg · hair: brown · eyes: brown · voice: swing

talents/skills: improv and comedy, mimicry and voices, dialects and linguistics; singing (any style) and songwriting, instruments (guitar, harmonica, harp, bass and piano); drawing, sketching, illustration, painting, graphic/web design, computer programming, writing (creative, sketch, journalistic); green screen acting; basic dance; stage combat and movement, swordplay and weaponry, swimming, climbing, willing to do own stunts; driving (valid automobile license); adaptation and transformation.


film/television
Duck Duck Goose Tober (Lead) Resolution Seven / dir Moki Goyal, Duy Linh Tu
Failsafe Solomon (Lead) Incredulous Pictures / dir Mark Kolu
The Scourge of the Vagabond Spectre Earl Haggerty (Lead) Tommy Gunn Productions / dir Colin Colfer
The Student Brett (Lead) NYStreet Films / dir Joe Tripician
Don't Breathe a Word (AlphaChannel Festival: "Best Screenplay") Jason Smith (Lead) Prishtina / dir Mimoza Rushiti
Sublet Jeff Thompson (Featured) No Logik Films / dir Georgiana Nestor
Impressions Preston Kelly (Lead) dir Alex Lin
Automatic Cinema Pino (Supporting) Bretonienne / dir Giacomo Gavotto
Love Roulette John (Lead) Section B Films / dir Chris Cayden
Nothing Personal [pilot] Captain James T. Kirk (Guest Star) Secci Films / dir Emanuele Secci
voice
Collaborative Health [promo] Voice Over Announcers Collaborative Health / Irreverent Films
The Upstate Four [pilot] Sam the Rabbit (Lead) Bunko Studios / Cartoon Network / dir Fran Krause
Mister Brown Goes to Work [web] Mister Brown (Lead) The Two Percent Company
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire [video game] Lular H'Minee / Judaa Marr (Leads) Audio-To-Go / Firaxis Games
commercial conflicts available upon request.
comedy
The Jekyll & Hyde Club Brewster Device (and puppet voices) Non-Stop Improv at Themed Restaurant
The Kaktabülz Performer/Writer/Director Sketch Comedy Group
stage
A Night in the Kremlin [Premiere] Harpo Marx ["Best Actor" Nom] Abingdon Theatre / dir Cosmin Chivu
Luck! [starring Faith Prince] Periapt York Theatre / dir Stephen Nachamie
The Tales of Custard the Dragon Pirate / Knight / Rabbit Daryl Roth Theatre / dir Bob Bartley
The Time Travelers Convention Tim Edwards Emerging Artists Theatre & CAP21 read
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Andre Thibault [u/s Freddy Benson — Performed] Broadway National Tour / dir Philip Wm. McKinley
Asterisk Announcer Ron Keener Sargent Theatre / dir Jason Grant
Minnie's Boys Harpo Marx Elmwood Theatre / dir Alan Demovsky
Notes from Underground Zverkov Icarus / NY Fringe Festival / dir Michael Gardner
Ice in April [OOBR "Best Play"] Hetchinson ["Best Supporting" Nom] Sage Theatre / dir Frank Avellino
Sandcastles The Doctor Mazer Theatre / The Million Stories
Macbeth Macbeth Reg. / AST
The Dybbuk Rabbi Azriel Reg. / Edison Theatre
Brighton Beach Memoirs Eugene Morris Jerome George Street Playhouse
education and training
Bachelor of Arts in Drama, Washington University in St. Louis
      Choral-Vocal Training - John Stewart, Cristine Descher.
      Modern Dance - Christine O’Neil, David Marchant, Paul Mosley.
      Acting Studies at Shakespeare's Globe, London - Patrick Spottiswoode, Jane Lapotaire.
Acting Program, New Jersey Governor’s School for the Arts
      Acting Studies - Christine Amicone, Jack McCullough.
      Stage Combat and Swordplay - Chuck Conwell.
      Further studies in Oration/Diction, Circus Performance, and Mime.
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