FRED SULLIVAN, JR.

Invited to join the company in 1984 by Adrian Hall, Fred has acted in over 100 productions in 28 seasons as a resident acting company member at Trinity Rep. Favorite roles include: Sir John Falstaff in both Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor; Charles Condomine (Norton award- Outstanding Actor), Blithe Spirit; James Tyrone, Jr, A Moon for the Misbegotten; Edmund Tyrone, Long Day?s Journey into Night; Harold Hill, The Music Man; Oscar Madison, The Odd Couple; Captain Jas, Hook, Peter Pan; Charlie etc., Stones in His Pockets; Alfie Doolittle, My Fair Lady; George Bailey, It?s a Wonderful Life; Sergeant/Lieutenant/ Undertaker/Old Man, We Won?t Pay! We Won?t Pay!; Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night; Creon, The Dreams of Antigone; Tom French, The Secret Rapture; Lloyd Dallas, Noises Off; Boris Semyonov-Pischik, The Cherry Orchard; Daddy Warbucks, Annie; Geoffrey, Absurd Person Singular; Pato Dooley, The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Wolf/Cinderella?s Prince, Into the Woods; Peter Patrone, The Heidi Chronicles; Max, Lend Me a Tenor; Sam Truman, Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Brodin, Red Noses; Aldo, Italian American Reconciliation; Jack Favell, Rebecca; Lloyd, Reckless; Dr. Sugar, Suddenly Last Summer; Hucklebee, The Fantasticks; Ronnie, The House of Blue Leaves; Touchstone, Oberon, The Ghost/gravedigger, the Dukes of York, Buckingham, Exeter and Venice, Scrooge, Peer Gynt, Sqanerelle, and Charles Dickens.

Fred played Harry Bagley/Martin in Cloud Nine both at Trinity Rep and Berkeley Rep; Martin Marcus in The Ruby Sunrise at both the Actors Theatre of Louisville and Trinity; appeared in two productions of Our Town, The Crucible, and All the King?s Men at Trinity Rep about 20 years apart and in 22 productions of A Christmas Carol.

For Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston, Fred played Jaques in As You Like It (Norton Award-Outstanding Actor), Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night?s Dream, Brabantio in Othello, Ageon in Comedy of Errors, and Parolles in All?s Well That Ends Well. He played Stephano in The Tempest at New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Alfie Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Theatre-by-the-Sea, Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia and Pompey in Measure for Measure for The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, and Cliff in Deathtrap at the American Stage Festival.

For Trinity, Fred has directed Shooting Star, 2007's A Christmas Carol and will direct Boeing Boeing in 2012.

As a resident director at the Gamm Theatre since 1996, he has staged Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing (each twice), King Lear, The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, The Dresser, Barrymore, The Birthday Party, The Crucible, School for Wives and Tartuffe in rep, One for the Road, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, La Bete, Awake and Sing! (Norton award-Outstanding production),Glengarry Glen Ross, A Doll?s House and boom.

He has also directed American Buffalo, The Venetian Twins, Cloud Nine, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Happy Days, Endgame and La Bête at Trinity Rep Conservatory.

Fred also has staged a dozen productions on Cape Cod for the Harwich Jr. Theatre and Barnstable Summer Family Theatre.

Mr. Sullivan teaches acting at RISD, Gamm, and as a Trinity Rep teaching artist .