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About Neil
Currently living in the Italian Alps, Neil has been a professional actor for over 35 years with performances in theatre, film, television and radio.
Neil was raised on Cape Cod as the seventh child in an amazing and loving family of ten. He began his professional career in the summer of 1980 as an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody Tent.
Neil has worked across the U.S. and New England, theaters include: New York Classical Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Excalibur Theatre Co. (Los Angeles), Actors Shakespeare Project, Stoneham Theatre, Lyric Stage Co. of Boston, Worcester Foothills Theatre, Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater, New Rep on Tour, Cape Rep, Seacoast Rep, North Shore Music Theatre, and was a company member for 10 years at the Publick Theatre under Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos.
Neil founded The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company in the fall of 2012 and was Producing Artistic Director until June of 2016. Under his directorship, the BCSC produced 12 works that toured across Southeastern New England and as far south as the New York Int. Fringe Festival. The BCSC production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was named “Best Solo Performance of 2014” by the Independent Reviewers of New England. Since December 2013, Neil’s IRNE award winning solo performance of A Christmas Carol has been a fixture of the South Shore and Cape Cod.
A Christmas Carol has also toured internationally, being performed in Austria, Ireland, England, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Italy in December of 2018. As of this writing, the 2019 tour, will return to London & Basel as well as tour to Dusseldorf.
Waiting to hear about other venues in Europe as well.
For the BCSC: A Christmas Carol - 2014 IRNE Award “Best Solo Performance”, 2013 “Best Of Boston”, Burbage - Cape Cod Times “2013 Critics Favorites” & “Best Play”, & New York Int. Fringe Festival, Hamlet (Hamlet), Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Macbeth (MacDuff), Hamlet (directed, Ghost/Player King), The Winter’s Tale (Leontes) & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed, Theseus/Oberon).
Neil produced and directed a movie of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure in 1999. Shot on MiniDV, Measure premiered at the Cape Museum of Art in 2002, screened at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, and won "Honorable Mention" at the United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival at Rutgers University.
Film and television credits include: Frank The Bastard, Edge Of Darkness, The Proposal, Killing Dinner, Fall Apart, Absent Father, Bust, Stranger, and Stuff Stephanie In The Incinerator, PBS/American Experience: Alexander Hamilton, ABC TV’s All My Children, and Showtime’s Brotherhood.
His radio work includes: Six titles (leads and featured roles) in the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre collection, all broadcast by National Public Radio and Voice of America.
Neil received his training at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association and SAG - AFTRA.
Neil is married with three children and has a dog named Fluffy.
Unique traits: Lover of Shakespeare
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Sisters (
2021 )
Film by Albolina Film/Deep Sea Studios LV/Fienixfilm/Linda Olte Kevin Johnson As orphanage-residents and teenage sisters Anastasia and Diana get to know that an American family is ready to adopt them, their biological mother returns to the picture. -
Hill Of Vision (
2020 - 2021 )
Film by Jean Vigo Italia/RAI Cinema/Rhino Films/ Roberto Faenza Principal Daly Italy, WWII. After his mother is arrested by fascists, Mario spends his childhood on the streets. In 1947 they are miraculously reunited and start a new life in America. Based on the life of Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine. -
Manaslu - Der Berg Seelen (
0000 - 2020 )
Documentary by Albolina Film/Planet Watch/Gerald Salmina Hans Kammerlander (English version, voice) The great successes and tragedies in the life and work of Hans Kammerlander, the renowned mountaineer. -
Frank The Bastard (
2013 )
Film by Paladin/Big Indie Pictures/Brad Colley Paul A woman returns to a small murky New England community where she grew up, located east of Acadia (French name for the region), to uncover the mystery behind her mother's untimely death. Some of the locals intend to stop her, though.
Awards
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ARTY Award - Town of Plymouth, MA for Artistic Excellence & Community Service
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Best Solo Performance - Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE)
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"Best Of Boston" for "A Christmas Carol" by critic Jules Becker
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"Favorite Performances" - Cape Cod Times for "Burbage"
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"Top Ten Performances of 1994" Boston Herald for "Shakerman"
(1994)
Education
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National Shakespeare Conservatory
(1987-1987) -
Cape Cod Community College
(1983-1985)
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