Stass Klassen

Stass Klassen is an international theatre, film, and TV actor working on three continents: in New York City and Los Angeles, in Bollywood, India, and in Moscow, Russia. He has starred in dozens (50+) of Film and TV productions, most recently in The Blacklist (2013) (2019); The Detour (2016) (2019) (TBS, WarnerMedia, USA); The President Show (2017) (2018) (Comedy Central, USA); The Americans (2013) (USA); Ekaterina (2014) as Friedrich the Great, King of Prussia; Smertelniy nomer (2017) as Col. von Kallenberg; Roads to Olympia (2019) (USA); The Optimists (2017) (Rossiya 1 TV, Moscow, Russia); Saka: The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib (2016) (Punjab-Mumbai, India), a Bollywood period piece where he plays the British governor of Lahore C.M. King; "Insomnia" (2017) (NBC Universal, USA); Kukhnya (2012) (STS TV, Moscow, Russia); Londongrad (2015) (STS TV, Moscow, Russia); Return to the Hiding Place (2013) (with John Rhys-Davies, USA); Escape from Tomorrow (2013) (Sundance 2013, L.A., USA); Regretting Fish (2011) (Williamsburg IFF, New York); The Dictator (2012) (Sascha Baron - actor/producer); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) (Martin Scorsese - dir.); Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior (2009), etc.; as well as TV productions on several major TV networks in USA and Russia. He has also been a producer and lead actor at the New York Art Theatre, an Off-Broadway Theatre Company in New York City. Among his 20+ theatre credits are the title roles in Off-Broadway productions of "Something Cloudy, Something Clear" by Tennessee Williams; "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "Counting The Ways" by Edward Albee; as well as the appearance in the Metropolitan Opera production of The Nose (2014) directed by William Kentridge at Lincoln Center, New York City. He toured internationally with all-male production of "Romeo & Juliet" (as Juliet & Benvolio; British tour), and "City Of Mice" (European tour: Hamburg, Barcelona, Hanover, etc.). His other New York theatre credits include "The Fall" by Albert Camus; "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov; von Kleist's "The Broken Jug"; "Too Clever By Half"; "Lt. Nants"; etc. Stass Klassen studied Theatre in Hamburg, Hanover, New York City, and Moscow, receiving MFA in acting from the Vakhtangov Academy - the Boris Schukin Theatre Institute (Moscow). At the New York Art Theatre (New York City), he collaborated with director Anatole Fourmantchouk on many productions in NYC & internationally. He directed a one woman show "Me, Myself, and Anna" and co-directed "My Poor Marat" for the Voyage Theatre Company (NYC). He lives in New York City.