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Bent Cast

** (Member Actors Equity Association)

 

David Plunkett (Max) is honored to return to the Uptown Players stage, after appearing in “Down South” as Robert Barnes, and in “Kiss of the Spiderwoman.” He also assistant directed and assistant choreographed “The Wild Party.” David is a three-time Rabin Award nominee, winning in 2002 for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for Kitchen Dog Theater’s “Some Explicit Polaroids,” which also earned a Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum award for Outstanding Ensemble.
 
  Kevin Moore (Horst) returns to Uptown Players, where he was most recently seen extolling the virtues of the mix tape in this year's Broadway Our Way. Other Uptown appearances include Valley of the Dolls, Thrill Me (Richard), Valhalla (Henry Lee), and Southern Baptist Sissies (TJ). Work at area theatres includes Theatre Arlington, Theatre Three, ICT Mainstage, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, and Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre.
 
 

Andrew Phifer (Rudy) is thrilled to be making his debut with Uptown Players. He was recently seen in Slaughterhouse 5 at Risk Theatre Initiative and Pygmalion at Theatre Three. Andrew is also a past Theatre Three Class A intern having performed shows such as The Full Monty and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.

     
  Paul Taylor** (Greta) received a DFW Critics Forum Award for his work in The Normal Heart at Uptown. Other credits include Officer Lockstock in Urinetown (WaterTower), Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (Contemporary), and Orin in Little Shop of Horrors (FMPAT). He has appeared Off-Broadway (Aunt Chooch’s Birthday) at Pulse Ensemble Theatre, at Lincoln Center (The Last Empress), The Kennedy Center (Shear Madness), Fort Worth Shakespeare, Echo, Stage West, Dallas Children's Theatre, Theatre Three, Casa Manana, Circle, Labyrinth, Plano Rep and Lyric Stage.
     
 

Ted Wold (Uncle Freddie) is excited to be back working at Uptown, having appeared previously in Sordid Lives (for which he received the DFW Theatre Critics Forum Award) and The Last Session. Ted has performed at several local theatres including WaterTower Theatre, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Plano Repertory Theatre, Dallas Children’s Theatre, Second Thought Theatre, and Theatre Arlington. Ted is a two-time Leon Rabin Award winner.

 
 

Stan Graner (Captain) makes his Uptown debut with Bent. Stan last worked with director Bruce Coleman when he cast Stan as Bobby in Company at Theatre Three. In 2007 Stan was seen in Parade at WaterTower Theatre, The Winner at Lyric Stage, and both Caroline or Change and Season’s Greetings at Theatre Three. Other theaters worked at include Circle Theatre, Stage West, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Casa Mañana, Theatre Arlington, Plano Repertory Theatre, Garland Summer Musicals, Classical Acting Company, and One Thirty Productions. Stan is the recipient of three Column awards

     
 

Andrew Worley (Greta’s Assistant/Kapo) is thrilled to be making his Uptown Players debut and under the direction of Bruce Coleman. Andrew was last seen in Dracula at ICT also directed by Bruce Coleman. He received his BFA in Theater Performance from Baylor University in May of 2006. Since returning to Dallas, he has done a few short films, commercials and worked on an episode of Prison Break. He was also in a world premiere musical TraumNovela at the Dallas Hub Theatre

 
  Heath Billups (Wolf) is proud to be making his acting debut with Uptown Players. His recent shows include: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Little Women at Black Box Operations. He has also recently graduated from KD Studio Actors Conservatory with his associates in Musical Theatre. He was nominated for an Abby award for best lead actor in a musical for his performance as Edwin Bricker in All-American
 
 

Josh Hepola (Guard) is making his Uptown Players debut. Recent shows include Shakespeare for the Modern Man at Irving Community Theater (Duncan) and Ebenezer Scrooge at Pocket Sandwhich Theater (Bob Crachit). Other DFW venues include GSM, GCT, RCT, FMPAT, and PRT. He also recently participated in a staged reading of My Favorite Animal with The Modern Stage. He is a
2001 graduate of The London Academy of Performing Arts.

 

     
  Clayton Younkin (Soldier/Gestapo) is thrilled to be returning to Uptown, after appearing earlier this season in Bare (Alan). Currently, he is a senior theatre performance major at The University of North Texas. Favorite productions include Damn Yankees (Joe Hardy), Songs For A New World (Man 2), Big River (Tom Sawyer, Column Award Winner), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere, Column Award Winner), and The Foreigner (Charlie Baker)
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