Bradford Cover (Director) Acting: Broadway: A Thousand Clowns. Off Broadway: A Taste of Honey, The Ding Dong, Uncle Vanya, You Never Can Tell, Henry IV Part I, The Philanderer, The Bald Soprano, Rosmersholm, Hard Times, Tartuffe, Arms and the Man, Richard II (among many others) (The Pearl Theatre Company), The Cartells (Drama Dept.) Love Goes to Press (The Mint). Return of the Prodigal (The Mint), a number of readings with Project Shaw,  Waxing West (The Lark), a number of readings with The Actor’s Company Theatre. The Tutor (NY Fringe Festival)  Regional:  Human Race, Two River Theatre, Playmakers Rep,  Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Cleveland Playhouse, Vermont Stage Co, McCarter Theatre,  Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival,  New London Barn, Berkshire Theatre Festival, St. Michael’s Playhouse, Texas Shakespeare Festival.  Television: “The Plot Against America,” “Madam Secretary,” “Elementary,” “Person Of Interest,” “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order,” “All My Children.” Film: La French.  Directing New York: The Country Wife – Odyssey Productions, Eight Reindeer Monologues – StageDoor Acting Ensemble, Scratched Fenders — Mark Murray Gallery, House of Bernarda Alba and Summer – American Academy of Dramatic Art, and a number of staged readings with The Pearl Theatre Company and The Resident Acting Company.   Bradford is the Artistic Director of The Resident Acting Company.  He also directs the Eighth Grade Shakespeare Play at St. Bernard’s School in Manhattan. 

EUGÈNE IONESCO was a Romanian-French playwright and one of the leading figures of the Theatre of the Absurd. Best known for works including The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, and Rhinoceros, Ionesco used surreal situations, repetition, illogical dialogue, and dark comedy to explore the breakdown of communication, conformity, and the absurdity of modern life. His plays became hugely influential in postwar theatre, and in 1970 he was elected to the prestigious Académie Française. 

THE RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY is made up of an ensemble of highly experienced actors who have been working together for many years. They perform the great classic plays because we know that they speak to us and address the issues that we as a society are facing today. The company believes in mining the language of these plays fully, and performing them in a way that is clear, exciting, innovative, and moving. Because of their many years of working together, they possess a powerful and immediate ability to create. They create work based upon the idea that theatre is at its best when the creators truly collaborate and build on each other’s ideas. They not only find innovative ways to work together, but re-examine traditional forms, challenging conventional ideas about gender, championing the inclusion of all ethnicities on its stages, and in its audience, and ultimately penetrating and inhabiting the heart of the plays they perform, with the intention of changing the way people think about themselves and the world.

The Pearl Theatre Company was founded in 1984 by Shepard Sobel. Performing classical repertory with a resident acting company, its troupe of actors trained together and performed show after show together, forming a common theatrical aesthetic and artistic bond. The Pearl began in a storefront in Chelsea and moved to Theatre 80 St. Marks, City Center, and finally, to a new theater at 555 West 42nd Street. Operating for 33 years as an Off-Broadway troupe, it earned Drama League awards, a Drama Desk for “nurturing a stalwart company of actors…” and several Obies. When the company closed after 33 seasons in 2017, members of its acting company banded together to continue The Pearl’s artistic tradition of addressing the big classics with a resident ensemble – and they are now The Resident Acting Company.

SHEEN CENTER:  Located on historic Bleecker Street, the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture is a venue where art and spirituality meet. The Sheen features a 273-seat neoclassical proscenium theater and a newly renovated, 80-seat, flexible Black Box – The Frank Shiner Theater. The Sheen Center also features an art gallery, rehearsal studios and meeting/reception spaces. Since opening in 2015, the Sheen has hosted several movie premieres as well as innovative productions by companies including Houses on the Moon, Red Bull Theater, TheaterWorksUSA, and Bedlam. Included among the hundreds of artists who have performed at The Sheen are Board Members Vanessa Williams and Frank Shiner, as well as Kristin Chenoweth, Nora Jones, James Taylor, Bernie Williams, Kirk Whalum, and Eileen Ivers. The Sheen is a preferred venue for WFUV Radio’s Membership Marquee Concerts and hosts the SOHO Forum monthly debate series, and in 2022, was chosen for the filming of the series, “Inside the Black-Box,” hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe Morton and producer Tracey Moore, and featuring prominent creatives of color, ranging from actors to producers to directors, writers, and musicians.