Anthony Lawton
AEA-SAG-AFTRA
(215) 432-4999
Hair: Brown Eyes: Green Voice: High Baritone Height: 5’11” Weight: 175
REGIONAL:
OF MICE AND MEN * George Walnut St. Theatre
OLIVER! Bill Sikes Walnut St. Theatre
ROMEO AND JULIET Friar Laurence Arden Theatre Co.
PLAYLAND Gideon Wilma Theatre
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Enobarbus Pennsylvania Shakespeare
THE SEAFARER Ivan Arden Theatre Co.
THE LONESOME WEST Coleman Lantern Theater
THREEPENNY OPERA Tiger Brown Wilma Theatre
THE WINTER’S TALE Autolycus Pennsylvania Shakespeare
BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN various 1812 Productions/Phila Fringe
THE FOOCY Bobil, etc. Delaware Theatre Company
LOOT * Truscott Arden Theatre Co.
SWEENEY TODD * Fogg (U/S Sweeney) Arden Theatre Co.
TWELFTH NIGHT Feste Pennsylvania Shakespeare
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Bottom Pennsylvania Shakespeare
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Cromwell Pennsylvania Shakespeare
OTHELLO Roderigo Lantern Theater
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY Mr. Meany Arden Theatre Co.
JAMES JOYCE’S THE DEAD Freddy Malins Arden Theatre Co.
IT'S ALL TRUE Howard DaSilva InterAct Theatre
HAMLET* Laertes Boar’s Head Theatre, MI
ARCADIA Chater Wilma Theatre
TRUE WEST * Austin Lantern Theater
A DOLL’S HOUSE Krogstad Lantern Theater
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS Screwtape Mirror/Lantern Theatre Cos.
THE GREAT DIVORCE Clive et al Mirror/Lantern Theatre Cos.
THE DEVIL AND BILLY MARKHAM Storyteller Mirror Theatre/Philly Fringe Festival
HERESY Tony Lawton Mirror Theatre/Philly Fringe Festival
THE TEMPEST Stephano Pennsylavania Shakespeare
CYRANO DE BERGERAC Jodelet (U/S Cyrano) Walnut St. Theatre
AS YOU LIKE IT LeBeau/Willem/Martext Delaware Theatre Company
OFF-BROADWAY:
OTHELLO Iago (U/S) Pearl Theatre Co.
THE GOOD NATUR’D MAN Philip/Dubardieu Pearl Theatre Co.
FILM:
UNBREAKABLE Hostage
Father M. Night Shyamalan, dir.
INVINCIBLE Reporter Disney
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Trunk Cop F. Gary Gray, dir.
TV:
COLD CASE Richter Tim Mattheson, dir.
HACK Brody Robert Singer, dir.
AMERICA’S MOST WANTED Peeping Tom Fox Network
Education:
B.A.
in Great Books, University of Notre Dame, ‘89 (cum laude)
M.F.A.
in Acting, Temple University, ‘92
Training:
Classics,
with Michael Langham and Helen Burns, Philadelphia Summer Theatre Institute, ‘98
Certified
Stage Combatant (Payson Burt, Society of American Fight
Choreographers)
Jazz,
Tap, Modern (Kathy Garinella, Temple University)
Singing
(Arecenia Rosal, Temple University)
Teaching Experience:
Beginning Acting, University of Pennsylvania ('08)
Teen Acting, Walnut St. Theatre ('04-'05)
Solo Acting, Wilma Theatre ('05)
Beginning Acting, Community College of Philadelphia ('04)
Acting, Directing, Solo Performance, Shakespeare, University of Notre Dame (’00-’02)
Beginning
Acting, Public Speaking Temple Univeristy (’92, ‘98)
Acting
II, Arden Theatre Co. (’97,‘98)
Drama
Camp, Friends’ Central School (Summer, ‘97, ‘98)
Walnut
Street Theatre (Fall ‘04)
Community
College of Philadelphia (Fall ‘04)
TOURING ENGAGEMENTS:
THE GREAT DIVORCE by C.S. Lewis
Role: Clive (and Adaptor)
Performed in: Oxford and Cambridge, England (International Conference hosted by C.S. Lewis Foundation), plus Eastern University (St. David’s, PA), Philadelphia Bible College, and churches in Ambler, Bryn Mawr, Warminster, and Abington, PA; Ithaca and Long Island, NY; Austin, TX; Orlando, FL; Colorado Springs and Denver, CO; Shelbyville, Nashville and Cookeville, TN; and Portland, OR.
Education:
B.A. in Great Books, University of Notre Dame, ‘89 (cum laude)
M.F.A. in Acting, Temple University, ‘92
Skills:
All Dialects, Juggle, Stand-Up Comedy, Speak French (fluently) and Spanish (passably) Scuba Certified
*Served as Fight Captain on this Show