ANTHONY NEWFIELD

Anthony Newfield is an actor, director, writer, and book editor. Originally from Northern California, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (PBK), with a degree in Romance Languages. He studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and received his MFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with the Moscow Art Theatre. He spent six months in Russia, studying and playing Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath. His article about his time in Russia, “After the Orchard,” was published in American Theatre magazine. Newfield’s Broadway credits: 1984, The Father, The Winslow Boy, The Columnist, The Royal Family, Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe. Off-Broadway credits: Ivanov (with Ethan Hawke and Joely Richardson), Susan and God, The Bad Infinity, Lady Windermere’s Fan, etc. Regional theatre credits: Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, An Enemy of the People, A Woman of No Importance, Orson’s Shadow, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Arcadia, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Bent (Carbonell Award, Best Supporting Actor), etc. Theatres around the country where he’s worked include Yale Rep, the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C., the Huntington (Boston), the Alliance (Atlanta), the Coconut Grove (Miami), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto), etc. International credits: invited to Ireland, he played Ned Weeks in the Irish premiere of The Normal Heart in Dublin and on its Irish National Tour. He later played T. S. Eliot in Tom and Viv for the Rough Magic Theatre Company and appeared in Patrick Mason’s production of Peer Gynt for the Gate Theatre, both in Dublin. In Tangier, Morocco, he was invited to play Giles Corey in a benefit reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, with Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, and Marisa Berenson, directed by Rob Ashford. Television appearances include guest starring roles on Diagnosis Murder, All My Children, One Life to Live, etc.; film work includes I Melt with You (with Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven), Diminished Chords, Miss Bertram’s Awakening, etc. He is artistic director of Poetry for Peace and of I Fabbristi, the theatrical company of New York’s landmark Edith Fabbri House / House of the Redeemer, for whom he has adapted and presented The Iliad, Gilgamesh, Beowulf, many play readings, and twenty-five years of Christmas programs. He has been a regular participant at the Steinbeck Institute in Monterey, California, and at the annual Steinbeck Festival at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California. He is president of the Episcopal Actors Guild (EAG), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing emergency aid and support to professional performers of all faiths and none who are undergoing financial crisis. The EAG is also dedicated to helping emerging artists advance their careers through scholarships, awards, and performance opportunities.