Spinella, Stephen 1956–

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SPINELLA, Stephen 1956–

PERSONAL

Born October 11, 1956, in Naples, Italy; raised in Glendale, AZ; father, a naval airplane mechanic. Education: University of Arizona, B.F.A., 1978; graduate study at New York University.

Addresses:

Agent—Gary Gersh, Innovative Artists, 1505 10th St., Santa Monica, CA 90401. Manager—Maryellen Mulcahy, Framework Entertainment, 9057 Nemo St., Suite C, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

Career:

Actor. Arizona Theatre Company, actor, 1978–79.

Awards, Honors:

Marion Scott Actor Achievement Award; Antoinette Perry Award, best featured actor in a play, Theatre World Award, and Drama Desk Award, outstanding featured actor in a play, all 1993, for Angels in America: Part One: Millennium Approaches; Antoinette Perry Award, best featured actor in a play, and Drama Desk Award, outstanding actor in a play, both 1994, for Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika; Obie Award, Village Voice, outstanding ensemble performance (with others), 1995, for Love! Valour! Compassion!; Annual Shakespeare Award, Artists' Equity Association, 1995, for Troilus and Cressida; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Drama Desk Award, all best featured actor in a musical, 2000, for James Joyce's "The Dead."

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

The Taming of the Shrew, Colonnades Theatre, New York City, 1985.

7 by Beckett, Syracuse Stage, Syracuse, NY, 1987–88.

The Amanuensis, L'illusion, New York Theatre Workshop, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1988–89.

Prior Walter, Millennium Approaches, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1989–90.

Prior Walter, Angels in America: Part One: Millenium Approaches, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1992–93.

Prior Walter, Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1992–93.

Prior Walter and man in park, Angels in America: Part One: Millennium Approaches, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1993–94.

Prior Walter, Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika, Walter Kerr Theatre, 1993–94.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1994–95.

Pandarus, Troilus and Cressida, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1995.

Waiting for Godot, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA, 1996.

Thomas, A Question of Mercy, New York Theatre Workshop, 1997.

Alfieri, A View from the Bridge, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, New York City, 1997–98.

Servant to Orestes, Electra, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, then Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1998–99.

Sherlock Holmes, Crucifer of Blood, Berkshire Theatre Festival, MA, 1999.

Freddy Malins, James Joyce's "The Dead" (musical), Playwrights Horizons, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1999–2000, then Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 2000.

Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko, The Seagull, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 2001.

Elle, Zipper Theatre, New York City, 2002.

Simon Stimson, Our Town, Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT, 2002, then Booth Theatre, New York City, 2002.

James Joyce, Travesties, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 2003.

Title role, Svejk, Theatre for a New Audience, Duke Theatre on Forty–Second Street, New York City, 2004.

The Singing Forest, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Seger-strom Stage, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, 2004.

Dominique de Villepin, Stuff Happens, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 2005.

Also appeared in The Age of Assassins, Bremen Coffee, A Bright Room Called Day, Burrhead, Dance for Me Rosetta, La fin de la baleine, Heavenly Theatre, Hydriota, King Lear, Major Barbara, Serious Money, Tartuffe, and The Virgin Molly.