Rodney Gardiner

AEA Member
Rodney Gardiner

Assistant Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Ariel and Ensemble in The Tempest*; Artez Sabine, Alabama Slim, Soul Siren, Alter Ego and Ensemble in black odyssey*

(*originally scheduled for 2020)

In nine seasons at OSF: Cord Elam, Oklahoma!; Orson, The Way the Mountain Moved; Cassius, others in Julius Caesar; Terror #4: Blacksmith,UniSon; Feste, Twelfth Night; Tinman, The Wiz; Nathan Detroit, Guys and Dolls; Undertaker, Head Over Heels; Dromio of Louisiana/Harlem, The Comedy of Errors; My Fair Lady; Coughlin, Rook in The Unfortunates; Sir Thomas Grey, Duke of Orleans, Michael Williams in Henry V; Guy, The Imaginary Invalid; Rumour, Pistol, others in Henry IV, Part Two; The Pirates of Penzance; Ben Pettus, American Night; fight captain, Oklahoma!, UniSon.

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: The King Operetta, The Persians, Marco Millions, others (Waterwell); Wailin’ Walter in his one-man blues narrative, Episodes In Blue; Regional: Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theatre), Metamorphoses (Berkeley Rep), Gem of the Ocean (Fountain Theatre); Master Harold . . . and the Boys (GableStage); Cymbeline, Man of La Mancha (Utah Shakespeare Festival).

Other: Writer (Waterwell); Director (Urinetown at Ashland High School). Five years performing in jails, rehab centers and homeless shelters in Miami, Florida.

Education: BFA, SUNY Purchase.