Gary Sloan

Walter Franz

Jeff Sturgeon as
Walter Franz(understudy)

Mr. Sloan has been a professional actor for thirty years and performed in New York, Los Angeles and regional theatres throughout the United States.

Most recently, he performed his one-person play, Haunted Prince, the Ghosts of Edwin Booth at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Shakespeare in DC Festival ’07, the role of Walter in Arthur Miller’s The Price, starring Robert Prosky at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. and as narrator for Defiant Requiem, a production of Verdi’s Requiem, conducted by Murray Sidlin in Terezin, CZ.

Favorite roles include: The title role in Hamlet, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Edgar in King Lear, starring Fritz Weaver at the Shakespeare Theatre and the title role in Macbeth at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.Also in Washington, A Month in the Country, The Way of the World, Dance of Death and Orsino in Twelfth Night at Arena Stage. Angelo in Measure for Measure at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas.� In New York City, he performed the role of Jack Rover in Wild Oats and Faust in Goethe’s Faust at the CSC Repertory and Oswald in King Lear starring Hal Holbrook at the Roundabout Theatre. In Los Angeles, he performed the role of Judge Brack in Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler.

Other regional theatre appearances include: Stanley in Pinter’s The Birthday Party at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, Harold in K-2 for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, Serge in Art for Syracuse Stage, New York,� Doc Holliday in Dark Paradise for Cincinnati Playhouse, Ohio, Bluntschli in Shaw’s Arms and the Man at Virginia Stage Co., Inspector Lestrade in The Crucifer of Blood at the The Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Charlie Fox in Speed the Plow at Indiana Repertory and Otto Frank in Round House’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank, Bethesda, Maryland.

Television work includes recurring roles on the daytime soap operas; >General Hospital, the Guiding Light, As the World Turns and Search for Tomorrow.

Mr. Sloan is currently Associate Professor and Head of the M.F.A. Acting Program at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.