STEHLIN, Jack

PERSONAL

Born July 21, in Allentown, PA; married Jeannine Welles (an actress and producing director), June 21, 1997. Education: Graduate of the Juilliard School and the Acting Company.

Addresses: Agent—Badgley Connor Talent Agency, 9229 Sunset Blvd., Suite 311, Los Angeles, CA 90069. Contact—Circus Theatricals, 11693 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049.

Career: Actor, director, and producer. Founder (with Jeannine Welles) and artistic director of The Hudson Guild, later known as Circus Theatricals (play production organization); instructor in Scene Study with Performance Workshop and Stehlin's Studio at Circus Theatricals Studio for Actors. Artistic director of Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston, TX, 1988–89, and Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, c. 2002–03. Affiliated with O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Waterford, CT; former member of American Repertory Theatre.

Awards, Honors: LA Weekly Award, 1995, for The Habitation of Dragons; Garland Award, outstanding performance, 1996, for The Kingdom of Earth; Drama-Logue Award and Garland Award, outstanding performance, both c. 1997, for Speed–the–Plow; Drama-Logue Award and Garland Award, both outstanding performance, and DramaLogue Award for direction, all c. 1997, for The Misanthrope; Garland Award, outstanding performance, c. 1998, for Twelfth Night; Garland Award (with others), outstanding performance, and LA Weekly Award nominations, outstanding male performance and outstanding ensemble (with others), all c. 1999, for The Job; Garland Award, outstanding performance, 2002, for Richard III.

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

Sir Richard Vernon, Henry IV Part I, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1981.

Stanley, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway production, c. 1983.

Dauphin, Henry V, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1984.

Apollo, Alcestis, American Repertory Theatre, Festival d'Automne, Paris, 1986.

Flavius and Titinius, Julius Caesar, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1988.

Sampson, Romeo and Juliet, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1988.

Thomas Theophilus, Phaedra Britannica, Classic Stage Company, CSC Theatre, New York City, 1988.

Octavio, Don Juan of Seville, Classic Stage Company, CSC Theatre, 1989.

The Learned Ladies, Classic Stage Company, CSC Theatre, New York City, c. 1991.

Sam Draycott, Hidden Laughter, Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT, 1992.

Bobby, Washington Square Moves, reading, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Waterford, CT, then regular production, Primary Stages, New York City, 1993.

Mowbray, The Tragedy of Richard II, New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theatre/Anspacher Theatre, New York City, 1994.

St. Just, Danton's Death, The Hudson Guild, Rapp Arts Center, New York City, c. 1994.

Leonard, The Habitation of Dragons, Zephyr Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 1995.

Title role, Macbeth, Classic Stage Company, CSC Theatre, 1995.

Alcibiades, Timon of Athens, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1996.

Chicken, The Kingdom of Earth, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 1996.

Alceste, The Misanthrope, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 1997.

Charlie Fox, Speed–the–Plow, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, c. 1997.

Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night, or What You Will (also known as Twelfth Night), The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1998.

Title role, Tartuffe, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 1998.

Jim, The Job, Circus Theatricals, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, beginning 1998, also produced at WPA Theatre, New York City, 1999.

Scapin, The Cheats of Scapin, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 1999.

Title role, Hamlet, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2000.

Lee, True West, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 2001.

Title role, Richard III, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2002.

Title role, Tartuffe (or the imposter), Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 2003.

Title role, Macbeth, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2004.

Appeared as Bobby Nobis, Gillette; as Count De Bernis, Casanova, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City; as Truffaldino, The King Stag, various venues, including Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy; in Don Juan, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City; appeared in The Balcony, Salome, and Six Characters in Search of an Author; appeared in productions at other venues.

Stage Director:

Danton's Death, The Hudson Guild, Rapp Arts Center, New York City, c. 1994.

Macbeth, Classic Stage Company, CSC Theatre, New York City, 1995.

The Misanthrope, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 1997.

Tartuffe or The Imposter, The Hudson Guild, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, 1998.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will (also known as Twelfth Night), The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1998.

The Cheats of Scapin, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 1999.

Great Scenes from Anton Chekhov, Circus Theatricals, Stehlin's Studio, 2000.

Great Scenes from Modern American Plays, Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble, Odyssey Theatre, 2001.

True West, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 2001.

The Cherry Orchard, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2002.

As You Like It, Lex Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 2003.

Tartuffe (or the imposter), Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 2003.

Director of other productions, including Bender and The Shakespeare Chronicles, both The Hudson Guild, Hudson Theatre; The Stronger and No Exit, both Acting Company Studio, New York City; Driving Miss Daisy, Stages Repertory Theatre, Houston, TX; Hedda Gabler, ATA, New York City; My Sister in This House, Juilliard School, New York City.

Stage Producer; with Others:

Uncle Vanya, The Hudson Guild, 1983.

Antigone, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 1995.

Denied (also known as Denied: A Work for the Theatre), The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1996.

The Lower Depths, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1996.

Lysistrata, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1996.

(With Jeannine Welles) Hedda Gabler, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1997.

The Misanthrope, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1997.

(With Jeannine Welles) The Job, The Hudson Guild, Hudson Guild Theatre, beginning 1998, also produced at WPA Theatre, New York City, 1999.

Tryst and Shout, Circus Theatricals, Hudson Guild Theatre, 1999.

(With Jeannine Welles) The Three Sisters, Odyssey Theatre, 2001.

(With Jeannine Welles) Circus Theatricals Festival of One Act Plays, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, 2002.

(With Jeannine Welles) Loose Ends, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2002.

(With Jeannine Welles) Antigone, Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble, 2003.

(With Jeannine Welles) Deconstructing the Torah, Circus Theatricals, Odyssey Theatre, 2004.

With John Bunzel, producer of Gravity Shoes, Hudson Avenue Theatre, Hollywood, CA.

Television Appearances; Series:

Davis Reese, General Hospital, ABC, beginning 1997.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Jim Travis, Blackout Effect, NBC, 1998.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Court clerk, "Fifty Ways to Floss Your Lover," L.A. Law, NBC, 1987.

"A Perfect World," John Grisham's The Client (also known as The Client), CBS, 1995.

Dr. Wellman, "First Degree," The Practice, ABC, 1997.

Lawyer, "You're under a Rasta," NYPD Blue, ABC, 1998.

Michael Axelrod, "Witch Hunt," Judging Amy, CBS, 1999.

Mr. Stevens, "Sins of the Fathers," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1999.

Doctor Angelman, "Goodbye Iowa," Buffy the Vampire Slayer (also known as Buffy and BtVS), The WB, 2000.

Doctor Angelman, "The I in Team," Buffy the Vampire Slayer (also known as Buffy and BtVS), The WB, 2000.

Doctor Angelman, "Primeval," Buffy the Vampire Slayer (also known as Buffy and BtVS), The WB, 2000.

Instructor, "Saved," Get Real, Fox, 2000.

Dale Alpert, "The Truth Is Out There," Crossing Jordan, NBC, 2002.

Edward Hardy, "Pas de Deux," JAG, CBS, 2003.

Edward Hardy, "A Tangled Webb: Parts 1 & 2," JAG, CBS, 2003.

"Risk," Strong Medicine, Lifetime, 2003.

Halberry, "New Hoods on the Block," The Practice, ABC, 2004.

Television Appearances; Other:

Voice of John Wilkes Booth, The John Wilkes Booth Story, Arts and Entertainment.

Film Appearances:

Board member, Purpose, Lakeshore Entertainment, 2002.

WRITINGS

Stage Plays:

(With Jeannine Welles) Adaptor, The Cheats of Scapin, Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, 1999.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Back Stage West, 2, 1997.

LA Weekly, March 14, 1997, p. 43.