JEREMY GEIDT

Cicero in Julius Caesar. Senior Actor, founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre. Yale: over forty productions. A.R.T.: ninety-seven productions, including The Onion Cellar, Romeo and Juliet (Montague), Three Sisters (Ferapont, in Cambridge and at the Edinburgh International Festival), Amerika (Ancient Servant), The Provok'd Wife (Lovewell/Justice of the Peace), The Birthday Party (Petey), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Snug), Pericles (Helicanus/Fisherman), Lysistrata (Chorus) Marat/Sade (Coulmier), The Doctor's Dilemma (Sir Patrick), Three Farces and a Funeral (Chubukov), Loot (Truscott), Ivanov, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Johnnypateenmike), The Merchant of Venice (Salerio), The Imaginary Invalid (Beralde), The Taming of the Shrew (Baptista), In the Jungle of Cities (John Garga), Peter Pan and Wendy (Mr. Darling), Man and Superman (Mendoza and the Devil), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wirthrol), The Wild Duck (Werle), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Jeremy), The King Stag (Pantalone), The Naked Eye (Senator Bemis), Buried Child (Dodge), The Tempest (Alonso), The Threepenny Opera (Mr. Peachum), Henry V (Chorus/Erpingham/Burgundy), Waiting for Godot (Vladimir), The Oresteia (Watchman), The Cherry Orchard (Gayev), Henry IV (Falstaff), The Caretaker (Davies), Heartbreak House (Shotover), The Homecoming (Max), and Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch). Teaches at Harvard College, its Summer and Extension schools, and the A.R.T. Institute. Trained at the Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently taught there. Acted at the Old Vic, the Royal Court, in the West End, in films and television, hosting his own BBC show for five years; came to this country with the satirical cabaret The Establishment, acted on and off Broadway and television. Other: Robert Wilson's Death and Destruction III at the Lincoln Center Festival. Lectured on Shakespeare in India, and taught at The Netherlands Theatre School. Received the 1992 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Boston Actor and a Jason Robards Award for Dedication to the Theatre.

Jeremy Geidt's e-mail address is geidt@fas.harvard.edu

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