{"id":13761,"date":"2019-05-23T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:21:25","slug":"paul-hecht","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/client\/actors\/paul-hecht\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hecht"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul Hecht made his debut on Broadway as \u201cThe Player\u201d\u00a0in Tom Stoppards\u00a0Rosencrantz &\u00a0Guildenstern are Dead<\/em> (Tony Award nomination – 1968). His most recent Broadway appearance was in the\u00a0 dual roles of\u00a0\u201cJohn Ruskin & Jerome K. Jerome\u201d <\/em>in Tom Stoppard\u2019s\u00a0The Invention of Love<\/em>.\u00a0 Other Broadway roles include\u00a0\u201cJohn Dickinson\u201d\u00a0in\u00a01776<\/em> (performed at the Nixon White House),\u00a0\u201cNathan\u201d\u00a0in the\u00a0Bock-Harnick musical\u00a0Rothschilds<\/em>,\u00a0\u201cRufio\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0 George Bernard Shaw\u2019s\u00a0Caesar &\u00a0Cleopatra <\/em>and\u00a0\u201cBelcredi\u201d <\/em>in Luigi Pirandello\u2019s\u00a0Henry IV<\/em>,\u00a0(both with Rex Harrison),\u00a0\u201cDick Wagner\u201d\u00a0in Tom Stoppard\u2019s\u00a0Night & Day<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>(with Maggie Smith), and the\u00a0\u201cDirector\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0Noises Off <\/em> by Michael Frayn, <\/strong>Herzl <\/em>by Dore Schary,\u00a0and\u00a0Don Juan<\/em> by Moliere, for the New Phoenix Rep.<\/p>\n

Off-Broadway, Paul has appeared as \u201c<\/strong>George Pye\u201d <\/em>in\u00a0Humble Boy<\/em> <\/strong>by Charlotte Jones at the Manhattan Theatre Club and on tour in the UK with the National Theatre.\u00a0\u201cRalph\u201d\u00a0in the American Premiere of Harold Pinter\u2019s\u00a0Moonlight<\/em> <\/strong>at the Roundabout\u00a0Theatre Company (with Jason Robards),\u00a0and Neil Simon\u2019s London Suite.<\/em> <\/em>Other appearances Off-Broadway include\u00a0MacBird & Sjt<\/em>, <\/strong>Musgraves Dance<\/em>. For his portrayal of\u00a0Pirandello’s\u00a0Henry IV<\/em> <\/strong>at the Roundabout he\u00a0 received an OBIE award (1990).<\/p>\n

Around the country, he has appeared as\u00a0\u201cCyrano\u201d\u00a0in the world premiere of the Anthony Burgess translation of Cyrano de Bergerac <\/em>at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, and as\u00a0\u201cMarc Antony\u201d <\/em><\/strong>in both\u00a0Julius Caesar<\/em> and\u00a0Antony &\u00a0Cleopatra<\/em> at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. He has performed with the NY Shakespeare Festival in such roles as\u00a0\u201cHenry V,\u201d<\/em> \u201cMacDuff,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cMenenius\u201d in\u00a0Coriolanus<\/em> <\/strong>(with Christopher Walken).<\/p>\n

He has performed in plays by Shaw, Chekhov, Turgenev, Handke, Kaufman-Ferber, Brecht, Harwood, Osborne, Dickens and Pinter, at Canada\u2019s Shaw Festival, McCarter: Princeton, Manitoba Theater Center, John Drew: East Hampton, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Baystreet: Sag Harbor, & Lincoln Center.<\/p>\n

He has appeared in movies with Jeremy Irons, Howard Stern, Sissy Spacek, Chris Rock, Jane Fonda, and Kris Kristofferson.<\/p>\n

TV\u00a0audiences may have recognized him over the years as\u00a0\u201cCharles\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0Kate and Allie<\/em>, and as a variety of unsavory characters in\u00a0Law & Order<\/em>, Queer as Folk<\/em>, Family Re-Union<\/em> (with Bette Davis),\u00a0I\u2019ll Take Manhattan<\/em> (with Valerie Bertinelli),\u00a0All My Children<\/em>,\u00a0One Life To Live<\/em>, Another World<\/em>, As the World Turns<\/em>, Starsky & Hutch<\/em>, Hawaii 5\/0<\/em>, Remington Steele<\/em>,\u00a0and the premiere episode of\u00a0Miami Vice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has recorded extensively for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he began his career as a staff announcer in Montreal in the early \u201860\u2019s. During that time he worked with the legendary radio director Rupert Caplan and hosted a live radio show from Expo \u201967.<\/p>\n

He appeared frequently on Hi Brown’s\u00a0CBS Radio Mystery Theater<\/em>, and narrated Oscar Wilde\u2019s short story\u00a0The Selfish Giant<\/em> (Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Short – 1972).\u00a0 He has recorded dozens of books for\u00a0Recorded Books<\/em> <\/strong>(Alexander McCall Smith, Ray Bradbury, William Safire, Thomas Mann). He\u00a0has appeared at\u00a0Selected Shorts <\/em>and\u00a0Bloomsday<\/em> at\u00a0Symphony Space, at the\u00a0Morgan Library\u00a0and the Unterberg Poetry Center <\/strong>at the <\/strong>92nd<\/sup> St Y, where he directed Edna St Vincent Millay\u2019s\u00a0Conversation at Midnight<\/em>.He appeared in\u00a0Every Good Boy Deserves Favour<\/em> (Stoppard\/Previn) and Fa\u00e7ade<\/em> <\/strong>(Walton\/Sitwell) with the Philadelphia Orchestra and, was the Narrator of\u00a0Stravinsky\u2019s Histoire du Soldat,<\/em> conducted by Robert Craft.He has performed in literary\/musical programs, with the Allentown Symphony, Dryden Players, Newberry Consort,\u00a0 and also performs a program of John Donne <\/strong>poetry with the Early Music Group\u00a0Parthenia. <\/strong>He reads to children in deepest Brooklyn\u00a0as part of NY State\u2019s Pre-K For All program. He was a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School of Canada (1963), and\u00a0served as President of the New York Branch of SAG from 1991-1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Hecht made his debut on Broadway as \u201cThe Player\u201d\u00a0in Tom Stoppards\u00a0Rosencrantz &\u00a0Guildenstern are Dead (Tony Award nomination – 1968).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13761","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13761"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17027,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13761\/revisions\/17027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}