U. Jonathan Toppo
In 26 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Tilney and Ensemble in Shakespeare in Love; Bardolph and Ensemble in The Merry Wives of Windsor Green in Richard II; Thaliard, Fisherman, Boult in Pericles; Fight Captain for Pericles; Fortinbras in A Wrinkle in Time; Fight Captain for A Wrinkle in Time; Steve Hubbell in A Streetcar Named Desire; Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella; Pistol in Henry V; Monsieur de Bonnefoi in The Imaginary Invalid; Sir Walter Blunt in Henry IV, Part One; Throne of Blood; Lenox in Macbeth; Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Coriolanus; Dad in Distracted; Philippe Petit in UP; Irvin in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Taylor in Gibraltar; Hofbauer in The Visit; Menas in Antony and Cleopatra; Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Larry, Congregant in Handler; Trinculo in The Tempest; Jason in Wit; Laertes in Hamlet; Aramis in The Three Musketeers; Zavel in Vilna’s Got a Golem; Bernard in Death of a Salesman; Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Ralph Berger in Awake and Sing!; Andrew May in Pravda; The Bridegroom in Blood Wedding; Radu Antonescu in Mad Forest; Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew; Casca in Julius Caesar; among many others.
The Guthrie Theatre: Thaliard, Fisherman, Boult in Pericles
The Folger Theatre: Thaliard, Fisherman, Boult in Pericles
Brooklyn Academy of Music: Throne of Blood
“You’ve never been here, now, before”
Photographer: Cynthia Smalley
GALLERY
VOICE WORK
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Stuff I Dig
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”
“If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.”
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- Yogi Berra
“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.”
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
"I'd much rather be someone's shot of whiskey than everyone's cup of tea."
- Carrie Bradshaw
“I’d like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God’s a workman. I don’t think there’s anything better than a workman.”
“Music is the space between the notes.”