Seth Duerr

Seth is the Founder and Artistic Director of The York Shakespeare Company and has appeared in and/or directed 34 productions of Shakespeare. Roles include: Iago, Claudius, Talbot, Margaret, Chorus, Leontes, Friar Laurence, Antonio (Tempest), as well as directing and playing the title role in Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, King Lear, Richard 2, Henry 4, Henry 5, Titus Andronicus and Richard 3. He wrote and directed the first author-approved stage adaptation of one of Ian McEwan's works, In Between the Sheets, and starred as Captain Ahab in Orson Welles' Moby Dick - Rehearsed in productions for both The Acting Company and Twenty Feet Productions. Other performances include: Azdak in The Caucasian Chalk Circle for Sonnet Rep, John Proctor in The Crucible for manhattantheatresource, and Tupolski in The Pillowman at APAC as well as directing and playing Jamie in YSCs production of Long Day's Journey Into Night and starring in the world premiere and subsequent Off-Broadway premiere of four-time Emmy-winner Randy Cohen's solo play The Punishing Blow. Film: The Summoning of Everyman (Death), The Kindergarten Shuffle, the title role in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and the forthcoming Dangerous Words from the Fearless. He is a lead vocal actor in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (Worgen) and Legion (Archmage Xylem), is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and serves alongside Donna Murphy on the Advisory Board of Wingspan Arts.