Project Description

Romeo + Juliet

Howie Seago (Friar Lawrence) THEATRE: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Deaf West, NYC, international tours. Notable title role: AJAX, dir. Peter Sellars. Howie worked with Robert Woodruff, Bill Rauch, Bart Sher, Robert Wilson, David Byrne, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Joe Haj. He performed in fourteen plays at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (7 years). Winner of Helen Hayes Award and others. FILM: Wonderstruck (dir. Todd Haynes, featuring Julianne Moore); Beyond Silence (Oscar nom.). TV: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hunter, Equalizer.  DIRECTING: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Just So and Other Stories, Same Time Next Year. Howie founded Deaf Youth Drama Program (SCT) and Deaf Moose Theatre. Featured: Actors’ Lives-On and Off The American Stage; Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists (Jean Kennedy Smith/George Plimpton). Published: “In An Alien World of Sound” (Theaterschrift). Howie deeply appreciates the love and support by his wife, Lori. Without her, who knows…?