I had the great pleasure of getting to play the Dentist (Orin Scrivello DDS) as well as many other roles in Little Shop of Horrors for Idaho and Tahoe Shakes all summer.
Orin takes a liking to Seymore
But he also likes the giggle gas…
Mr. Bernstein
Wino
Mrs. Luce
#1 Customer
Skip Snip
Patrick Martin
Our second go round doing the show. This year we added new songs, a snowball fight with the audience, and more zombies of course because… Christmas.
(Photos by Jenny Graham)
Past and Present argue over who is supposed to haunt Carol first.
In Carol’s past, Wezzyfig’s troupe is surprised when the witches from Macbeth show up during their performance of Romeo & Juliet for the Queen.
The Future Phantom does leg business with Carol.
The Narrator tries to get her holiday story back on track
At Freddie’s party a magician, a mortician, and a mathematician show up in the present in lieu of a musician.
Carol tries to figure out what she is supposed to have learned from the evening’s nonsensical events.
Recently shot a scene for Season 2 Episode 4 of The Gilded Age. And I just found out that my character will be making another appearance in Episode 6. Huzzah!
“Time and again, the scene stealer in this production is Mark Bedard as Parolles, Bertram’s best friend and an endlessly self-aggrandizing braggart. Parolles’s very name is rooted in the French “parler,” to talk. Bedard makes the character’s feckless verbosity wonderfully vivid, right up to a clever reveal that shows the blowhard in an entirely different light.” - Catey Sullivan
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/theater-review/hes-just-not-that-into-you-2/
Jeff Kurysz, Casey Hoekstra, Jacob Mundell, and Joseph Aaron Johnson bind and hoodwink Parolles (me). This is oddly the only production photo of me in the show at present. Ha!
The holiday comedy I co-wrote with my pals John Tufts & Brent Hinkley is up and running at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival! Tickets and info here.
It’s Christmas, Carol! (2021): Brent Hinkley, John Tufts, Safiya Fredericks, Mark Bedard. Photo by Jenny Graham
I’m happy to say that I have officially been brought onto the team of Facilitators with Fearless Communicators. It’s a great company that teaches people how to bring their whole BODY, MIND, HEART and SPIRIT to a moment and channel their message in service of an audience.
Here are some screenshots
Was great to get to act alongside Kurt Fuller, Katja Herbers, and Paton Ashbrook. Kurt is a hoot!
Did a couple days of shooting for episode 11 of the new CBS show EVIL still in its first season. The episode is called Room 320 and I play Dr. William Hughes.
A selfie from the trailer before I head to set
Made an appearance as Officer Garrett in Season 6 Episode 4 titled VALOR. It aired on Sunday 10/27/19
Did a reading of Sarah Ruhl’s latest play in Poughkeepsie NY for New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse 2019 Reading Series. It was very well received!
The cast: Mark Bedard, Brian Kerwin, Ann McDonough, David McElwee, Polly Noonan, Susannah Perkins, Miriam Silverman
This was a whirlwind 2 weeks as part of part of the 2019 Encores! Off-Center season at New York City Center! With only 11 days to rehearse this 1960’s musical written by Maria Irene Fornes with music by Al Carmines. I had a blast with this amazing team. We performed it on July 10th and 11th and were a New York Times Critic’s Pick!
The shows I’ll be participating in are as follows:
Week 1: Henry VI, Pt. 1
Reading date: Friday, May 31st at 7:00pm
Translation by Doug Langworthy
Directed by Leah Gardiner
Dramaturgy by Mead Hunter & Martine Kei Green-Rogers
https://playonfestival.org/production/henry-vi-part-1/
Week 2: King John
Reading date: Saturday, June 8 at 7:00pm
Translation by Brighde Mullins
Directed by Drew Barr
Dramaturgy by Katie Peterson & Drew Barr
https://playonfestival.org/production/king-john/
Week 3: As You Like It
Reading date: Saturday, June 15 at 2:00pm
Translation by David Ivers
Directed by Rob Salas
Dramaturgy by Lezlie C. Cross
https://playonfestival.org/production/as-you-like-it/
Week 4: Othello
Reading date: Thursday, June 20 at 7:00pm
Translation by Mfoniso Udofia
Directed by Victor Maog
Dramaturgy by Ayanna Thompson & Alex Barron
https://playonfestival.org/production/othello/
Week 5: The Winter’s Tale
Reading date: Friday June 28 at 7:00pm
Translation by: Tracy Young
Director: Chris Moore
Dramaturgy by Ben Pryor
https://playonfestival.org/production/winters-tale/
For full detalls about all 39 readings taking place from May 29 trough June 30, visit playonfestival.org
It’s been a glorious ride! And though the show is grueling, I couldn’t be more happy with it.
Playing the conspirator Trebonius alongside Brandon J. Dirden as Marcus Brutus
photo by (c) Gerry Goodstein
What I learned on the first day of rehearsal? This is an amazing group of people, I better step up my game, and this is going to be an amazing show. Definitely a must see!
The full cast, Director, and Voice Coach
Today I wrapped shooting my second TV Co-Star role this year (thank you CBS). It’s been an exciting year. On the following two shows:
INSTINCT Season 2, Episode 7 “After Hours”
THE GOOD FIGHT Season 2, Episode 12 “Day 485” - Check this appearance out on my Media page
Another one for the books. Davis McCallum’s direction was superb. He sculpted one hell of a show. Super clear, clean, and engaging. They are lucky to have him as Artistic Director of The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Bolingbroke is not good at saying goodbye. It almost feels as though he’s being banished.
What a wild ride it has been! 5 months with a cast of eight. Shana Cooper directed the hell out of this thing (Check out her website HERE). My biggest hope is that it will get picked up and get produced somewhere else someday. Much like her JULIUS CAESAR, hint hint ;)
Biko Eisen-Martin and Triney Sandoval strike a deal
Britney Simpson and Ralph Johnson hear the treble jar
Kurt Rhoads gets talked down to
Liz Wisan and a fault unwilling
Nance Williamson and her favorite scene partner
“Ms. Coffey, is at home with both aspects of Richard II’s cloven personality, pivoting from arrogance to desperation so smoothly as to suggest that both qualities are opposite sides of the same coin of character. Mr. Bedard’s bald, bullet-headed Bolingbroke, by contrast, is all of a piece, tough and incisive in his iron determination to revenge himself. They are the two poles between which the other characters in this production array themselves, and their excellence makes everyone else shine even more brightly.” - Terry Teachout
The full review is here:
https://goo.gl/tQgCgH
with Julia Coffey as Richard II
Proud to be a part of such a great show. Read the review here:
https://hvshakespeare.org/taming-is-new-york-times-critics-pick/
Yes, that’s the entire cast of SHREW
