Benjamin Evett

Benjamin Evett has appeared at the American Repertory Theater in La Dispute, as Ilya Ilych Telegin in Uncle Vanya, Kinesias in Lysistrata, Jacques Roux in Marat/Sade, Peter in Absolution, Cassio in Othello, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk/Sir Stephen Scroope in Richard II, Burris in Animals and Plants, the General in Mother Courage, the Messenger in Antigone, Time in The Winter's Tale, Lvov in Ivanov, the Policeman in Charlie in the House of Rue, Babbybobby in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Hyppolytus in Phaedra, Clèante in The Imaginary Invalid, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, Pentheus in The Bacchae, Zalman Tippish/Chaim Rascal/Dopey Petzel in Shlemiel the First, the Dreamer in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Leandro in The King Stag, the Son in Six Characters in Search of an Author, Punch 2/Judy Bell/Taxi Judy in Punch and Judy Get Divorced, Bouggerslas in Ubu Rock, Vince in Buried Child, Ariel in The Tempest, Charles Filch/Walt Dreary/Beggar Joe in The Threepenny Opera, Bardolph/Montjoy in Henry V, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Herald/Chorus/Pylades/Hermes in The Oresteia, Epihodov in The Cherry Orchard, Nicholas Beckett in What the Butler Saw, Pistol in Henry IV, Part 2, and as Sir Richard Vernon in Part 1, in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and in Platonov. He has also performed at the Missouri Repertory Theatre, where he played the title roles in Billy Bishop Goes to War and Amadeus, and at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, where he played Swiss Cheese in Mother Courage. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Mr. Evett currently serves as artistic director of the Actors' Shakespeare Company in Boston.

PAST PERFORMANCES

• Absolution
• Animals and Plants
• Antigone
• Archangels Don't Play Pinball
• Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Buried Child
• Charlie in the House of Rue
• Demons
• Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2
• Henry V
• Ivanov
• La Dispute
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Lysistrata
• Marat/Sade
• Mastergate
• Measure for Measure
• Mother Courage & Her Children
• Othello
• Phaedra
• Platonov
• Punch and Judy Get Divorced
• Richard II
• Shlemiel the First (1994)
• Shlemiel the First (1997)
• Six Characters in Search of an Author (1996 revival)
• The Bacchae
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Cherry Orchard
• The Cripple of Inishmaan
• The Imaginary Invalid
• The King Stag (2000)
• The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
• The Serpent Woman
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Winter's Tale
• 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore
• Tonight We Improvise
• Ubu Rock
• Uncle Vanya (2002)
• Waiting for Godot (1995)
• What the Butler Saw