![]() You see, Bruce is sticking closer to home these days, and home for Bruce is Baltimore. ![]() ![]() Animal Crackers is running at Center Stage in Charm City, while Red will play at its Everyman Theatre. Over the next several years, he became a member of the acting company at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and a face familiar to DC audiences, eventually taking home a couple Helens for work at Rep Stage in Columbia.īut you might not have seen him much recently, that is, unless your theatre-going takes you up to Baltimore. For that role, he received a Helen Hayes Award nomination, the first of many. I met Bruce in 1998 when he played Harlequin in The Triumph of Love at Washington Shakespeare Company while I was Artistic Director. I’m sure there have been other actors who have made equally impressive leaps from wildly different parts in strikingly dissimilar plays, but I can’t think of them at the moment. Jeffrey Spalding, the Groucho character, in the Marx Brothers’ comedy Animal Crackers. He jumps into that shortly after finishing up his current gig, playing Capt. How’s this for an actor demonstrating stunning range:īruce Randolph Nelson’s next project is playing the driven, intense (eventually suicidal) artist Mark Rothko in John Logan’s Tony-winning play Red.
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