Biografia
Henry Woronicz has been an actor, director, producer, and teacher for more than 40 years. He has acted or directed at many of the nation's leading theatre companies, including the American Player's Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Delaware Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Meadow Brook Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Syracuse Stage, as well as the Boston Shakespeare Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and the Utah, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals. In 1996, he directed a Chinese language production of School for Scandal at the Hong Kong Repertory Company.
His acting credits include: (Broadway) Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington; (film) Primary Colors, Living Out Loud, The Good Catholic, Ms. White Light; (television) Seinfeld, Ally McBeal, Cheers, Pickett Fences, Third Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: the Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Law & Order, and Law and Order: SVU. Henry spent 11 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a resident actor and director, and served as OSF's Artistic Director from 1991 to 1995. In 2009, he served in a consulting capacity as Executive Producer of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and from 2009-2012, as an Associate Professor on the School of Theatre faculty, head of the MFA Acting Program at Illinois State University. In 2013, he received a Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Solo Performance from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for his performance as the Poet in An Iliad, by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, directed by Lisa Peterson. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 2014-17.
