Stephen Burleigh

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Stephen Burleigh (born July 29, 1949 in Wheeling , West Virginia ) is an American actor , writer and producer.

life and career

Burleigh graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and received his acting training from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater .

As an actor, he has been involved in many theater performances, television productions and also in advertisements. As a theater actor he appeared on Broadway (in A Talent for Murder , with Jean-Pierre Aumont and Claudette Colbert in the leading roles), in off-Broadway productions (including 1980/81 in Translations and Crimes of the Heart at the Manhattan Theater Club) and in regional theater productions. At the Lexington Conservatory Theater he played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ; as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof he performed at the Trinity Square Repertory Theater.

Burleigh was also active as a playwright and theater producer. He wrote several plays. His works include political plays dealing with the Iraq war, the Darfur conflict and the effects of 9/11 , but also a romantic comedy, Love & Suicide . As a theater producer, he was responsible for the premiere of Vincent J. Cardinal's one-act play The Colorado Catechism at the Coast Playhouse Theater in Los Angeles in the spring of 1993 . In the fall of 2015, he was the producer of the play Watching OJ , by David McMillan, set against the background of the criminal case against OJ Simpson , in a production of the Ensemble Studio Theater at the Atwater Village Theater in Los Angeles.

Stephen Burleigh has appeared regularly in numerous US TV series and several TV films since the mid-1970s, including many TV successes such as Die Zwei mit den Dreher (1977), Texas (1981), Falcon Crest (1987–1988) , Jake and McCabe - Through Thick and Thin (1988), Under the California Sun (1988), The Model and the Snoop and General Hospital (1990).

He has also produced several films. He was a producer on Edge Of America (director: Chris Eyre), the official opening film of the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. For this he won the 2006 George Foster Peabody Award . Edge Of America has also been shown at the Tribeca Film Festival , Hampton's International Film Festival, and the Nantucket Film Festival , and was voted "Best Picture" at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco .

Burleigh also produced the independent film Bereft (2004), which starred Vinessa Shaw , Tim Blake Nelson , Edward Herrmann , Michael C. Hall and Marsha Mason . The film Bereft , which was also the directorial debut of actor Tim Daly , premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was selected for the Seattle International Film Festival , the Chicago Film Festival , the Hamptons International Film Festival and the AFI Festival in Los Angeles . As executive producer he was involved in the TV adaptation of Emily Mann's play Execution Of Justice ; the film won the 2000 GLAAD Media Award in the “Best Television Movie” category.

He has been married to Hope Busby (Hope Burleigh) since 1977. She works as a freelance photographer .

Filmography (selection)

Movies

  • 1980: Enola Gay - Bomber des Todes ( Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb , TV movie)
  • 1994: Delivered helpless ( Murder or Memory ?: A Moment of Truth Movie , TV movie)
  • 2001: Shipwreck ( Jumping Ship , TV movie)
  • 2004: Ready

Series

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Stephen Burleigh . Vita. National New Play Network. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g David McMillan's WATCHING OJ to Make World Premiere in Los Angeles This Fall . In: Broadway World, October 3, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ Steven Burleigh . Broadway world productions. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  4. ^ The Colorado Catechism . Performance review. In: Variety, February 18, 1993. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  5. ↑ WATCHING OJ ... Atwater Village . Performance review. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  6. ^ Watching OJ Review - The Verdict that Shocked America . Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  7. ↑ Hope Burleigh Overview . Retrieved May 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Burleigh, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wheeling , West Virginia