Stephen Cefalu

Film/TV: Documentary of Slave Play (Self for HBO), Evil (Co-Star), Shameless (Co-Star), Law & Order: SVU (Guest Star), This Afternoon (Paul), Support (Tim), Teacher (Bill).

Regional Theatre: To Kill a Mockingbird (Off-Stage u/s: Dill, Jem, Bailiff, Mob Member, Mr Roscoe, Dr Reynold – National Tour), The Gradient (Clients 1-8, St. Louis Rep), PerkUp PerKup (Eric – City Theatre, Dir. Marc Masterson), Mary Page Marlowe (Ed Marlowe – Steppenwolf, Dir. Anna D. Shapiro), Damsels (Bruce/Soldier – Williamstown Theatre Festival [WTF], Dir. Maggie Burrows), A Man’s World (Malcolm Gaskell – WTF, Dir. Jason McDowell-Green), Brotherhood (Trevor – WTF, Dir. Ken-Matt Martin), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Nick – Redtwist Theatre, Dir. Jason Gerace), End Days (Nelson Steinberg – Windy City Playhouse, Dir. Henry Gondinez), Pins and Withers with Michael Shannon (Scott McGill – A Red Orchid Theatre, Dir. Susan E. Bowen), Assassins (John Hinckley u/s – Yale Rep, Dir. James Bundy), Scenes From Court Life, or A Whipping Boy and His Prince (George W. Bush u/s – Yale Rep, Dir. Mark Wing-Davey).

Educational: Sweat (Stan), Slave Play (Jim), Tent Revival (Robert), Trouble in Mind (Al Manners), The Winter’s Tale (Florizel/Anigonus), Everything That Never Happened (Gobbo), Shoot Her, Shooter (Steve), Passion (Lieutenant Barri), Escape from Happiness (Tom) – All at Yale School of Drama; Lear (Edgar – Yale Summer Cabaret), The Light Fantastic (Peter/Rufus – Yale Cabaret).

Workshops and Readings: Mary Page Marlowe (Ed Marlowe/Ben – Steppenwolf, Dir. Anna D. Shapiro), Northside Hollow with K. Todd Freeman (Marshall – Steppenwolf, Dir. Ian Barford), Red Wine-Leftists: 1977 (Kyle – Goodman Theatre, Dir. Wendy C. Goldberg), Killing of a Gentleman Defender (Zevon – Goodman Theatre, Dir. Stuart Carden), Bobbie Clearly (Eddie Welch – Steep Theatre, Dir. Josh Sorbel).

Training: Yale School of Drama – MFA Acting
Acting: Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, Yuri Kordonsky, Gregory Wallace, Robert Woodruff, James Bundy
Acting/Shakespeare Text: Peter Francis James, James Bundy, Steven Skybell
Speech/Dialect: Ron Carlos, Beth McGuire
Voice: Walton Wilson, Grace Zandarski, Louis Colainni, Dawn-Elin Fraser
Alexander Technique: Jessica Wolf, Bill Connington
Singing: Glenn Seven Allen, Anne Tofflemire
Stage Combat: Rick Sordelet, Michael Rossmy
Dance for Actors: Jennifer Archibald
The Body as Source/The Body in Space: Erica Fae
Clown/Commedia: Christopher Bayes
Theater Games: Justine Williams
Creating Actor-Generated Work: Joan MacIntosh
Acting for Camera & Professional Preparation: Ellen Novack, Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Bob Krakower
Yoga: Annie Piper

University of Southern Mississippi – BFA Acting