Henry Woronicz
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Henry Woronicz (b. 1954) was artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 1991 to 1995. He was an actor and stage director there starting in 1984. In addition to his work at OSF, he has acted and directed in many other theaters, and has extensive film and TV credits.
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[edit] Biography
Henry Woronicz was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bridgewater State College. He acted and directed at Boston Shakespeare Company, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Los Angeles Theatre Center and others before going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1984.
In an interview with Liliana Osses Adams, reported at Shakespeare in Ashland, Oregon, Woronicz explained “his acting technique relied on the Stanislavsky Method that stresses the introspective approach to artistic performance, reinforced by the formula of emotion, thought, action, and word, that means ‘the inner truth,’ as the actor becomes character.”
[edit] Oregon Shakespeare Festival Years
Before he became artistic director he spent seven years at Oregon Shakespeare Festival acting in many roles: as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and the title roles in many productions, including Peer Gynt, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Henry VIII. His early directing credits included Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV, part 2, Other People’s Money, Master Harold...and the Boys, and Sea Marks. In 1991 he followed Jerry Turner as OSF’s third artistic director. After assuming the role of artistic director, Woronicz continued to act and direct. During those years he directed Pravda, Hamlet, The Rehearsal, Cymbeline, and All’s Well That Ends Well. He was artistic director from 1991 to 1995.
[edit] Recent Theater Work
In 2005 Woronicz appeared on Broadway in Julius Caesar at the Belasco Theatre. In 2006 he directed Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival and he plans to direct Coriolanus in 2007 at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. He played Leontes in The Winter's Tale at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA and has appeared in plays at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.
[edit] Film and TV Credits
He has acted in films and television shows from 1991 to the present. The films in which he has acted include Primary Colors, Living Out Loud, and Little Pieces. Television credits include parts in Seinfeld, Ally McBeal, Ed, Frasier, Moesha, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cheers, Picket Fences, Third Watch, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Law and Order.
[edit] References
Information from the archives of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, used with the permission of Amy Richard, Media Relations, OSF: media@osfashland.org.
