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Autumn Update

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been named the Artistic Director of Revels, a one-of-a-kind performing arts organization based in Cambridge, MA.

For more than 50 years, Revels has operated year-round, with its signature event, the Midwinter Revels at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, becoming a cherished tradition that draws thousands from across the Greater Boston area to celebrate the season through song, story, and community. Revels brings together musicians, dancers, singers, clowns, and actors, from dedicated professionals to devoted artists from all walks of life, to celebrate our shared humanity through the folk traditions and seasonal celebrations of cultures around the world.

I’m beyond excited to join this artistic family of passionate, talented storytellers.

Here’s the official announcement from the Revels website…

Very proud to have opened

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

at

Gulfshore Playhouse…

“This production offers audiences the opportunity to experience the craft of acting at its highest level…

a masterclass in theatre excellence.” – Florida Weekly

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Pictured with Beth Hylton. Photo by Matthew Schipper.

…runs through November 23rd.

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Autumn Update

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been named the Artistic Director of Revels, a one-of-a-kind performing arts organization based in Cambridge, MA.

For more than 50 years, Revels has operated year-round, with its signature event, the Midwinter Revels at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, becoming a cherished tradition that draws thousands from across the Greater Boston area to celebrate the season through song, story, and community. Revels brings together musicians, dancers, singers, clowns, and actors, from dedicated professionals to devoted artists from all walks of life, to celebrate our shared humanity through the folk traditions and seasonal celebrations of cultures around the world.

I’m beyond excited to join this artistic family of passionate, talented storytellers.

Here’s the official announcement from the Revels website…

Very proud to have opened

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

at

Gulfshore Playhouse…

“This production offers audiences the opportunity to experience the craft of acting at its highest level…

a masterclass in theatre excellence.” – Florida Weekly

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Pictured with Beth Hylton. Photo by Matthew Schipper.

…runs through November 23rd.

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Mary Poppins

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Lieutenant of Inishmore

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Scapino (Premiere)

Gulfshore Playhouse

Higher (Premiere)

Gulfshore Playhouse (also Playwright)

An Iliad

Gulfshore Playhouse

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Pictured with Beth Hylton. Photograph by Matthew Schipper.

Music Hall (US Premiere)

59E59th Street

The Refugees (Premiere)

with Alan Campbell Photo Matthew Schipper

Every Brilliant Thing – Photo Matthew Schipper

Ride the Cyclone

McCarter Theatre Center

The White Chip (Premiere)

Merrimack Rep

Damages

Damages – Television

A Christmas Memory – Photo JD Urban

My Fair Lady

Gulfshore Playhouse

Holmes and Watson

Gulfshore Playhouse

Bob

2011 Humana Festival

Merchant of Venice

Gulfshore Playhouse

Hound of the Baskervilles

Gulfshore Playhouse

The Price

Gulfshore Playhouse

The Mystery of Irma Vep

Gulfshore Playhouse

Starcrossed

Naples Philharmonic and Gulfshore Playhouse

Scapino – Kinetic Theatre

It’s A Wonderful Life_ A Live Radio Play

Andrea Prestinario and Jeffrey Binder Photographer: Matthew Schipper

The Cherry Orchard

Sketchbook Theatre

PRESS

Comic casting is highlighted by Jeffery Binder’s Zazu, a wise and witty bird who earns major amusement with his insinuating portrayal.

– Variety “The Lion King”

Broadway veteran Jeffrey Binder, making his MRT debut, plays Sean as a kind of guy we all know, a rueful, stubble-chinned wiseacre. His performance deepens along with the hole Sean digs for himself.

– Boston Globe “The White Chip”

Director Zeljko Djukic ups the ante by having her played by the superb Jeffrey Binder — younger than the role requires, and a man. Although he eventually changes into a long skirt, earrings and makeup, Binder doesn’t do drag. He’s not trying to impersonate a woman: He’s paying tribute to one — you wonder if Binder is playing the Artiste herself or a devoted fan imitating her.

– NYPost “Music Hall”

Maybe poor Penthesilea should have heeded the advice of Odysseus (a smooth Jeffrey Binder). “Take it from me,” he says. “No man is worth all this.”

– NYTimes “Love in the Wars”

The here’s-the-way-it-really-was speech Mr. LaBute provides for A is simply devastating, and devastatingly delivered by Jeffrey Binder.

– NYTimes “Romance”

Most intriguing is “Romance,” by Neil LaBute, a scene between ex-lovers whose genders are unspecified in the script. Under the direction of Dolores Rice, two terrific male actors (Jeff Binder and Demond Green) perform the play two different ways…

– New Yorker “Romance”

They and the other “side men” (Kevin Geer, Michael Mastro, Jeff Binder and Angelica Torn) show just the inspiring ensemble work you’d expect after having done the play both off-Broadway and on.

– Post-Gazette London “Side Man” on the West End

The memorable performances are those of Mr. Binder as Pantalone, a doddering old fool given to inappropriate laughter and sobbing, and of Andrew Weems as the head eunich, Truffaldino, devoted to keeping the princess man-less.

– New York Times “Princess Turandot”

Gulfshore Playhouse has gone bold in 2018. The theater company next month will unveil architectural plans for a new multimillion-dollar, 400-seat theater. And now here’s “Scapino,” a bold, creative stroke of comedic genius built for Southwest Florida audiences and maybe even beyond.

– Naples Daily News “Scapino” written by Jeffrey Binder based on Moliere’s Scapin

Higher, written by and starring Jeffrey Binder

Binder excels at single-actor works, as audiences who saw him in “An Iliad” here know. He can whirl around to change characters in conversation with an accent, a new arm position, an emotional tenor. He crosses the stage and emerges five centuries earlier – or later – depending on whether he is the semi-aimless wanderer or the driven Petrilk… by turns he’s an officious cleric, spritelike guide, contentious foreman, outraged wife, tipsy Scotsman, omniscient observer or, oh, St. Michael the Archangel.

– Harriet Heithaus, Naples Daily News, on Higher

Higher

It’s a powerful, gripping work. Mr. Binder’s scene with his father are heartbreaking, but also funny, as his father tells jokes, even while fighting cancer. With just a few lines, you get an idea of what this man was like. This is Mr. Binder’s superpower, to embody others so quickly and convincingly, like an artist who can bring someone to life with just a few strokes of the pen.

– Nancy Stetson, Naples Illustrated on Higher

Every Brilliant Thing

Binder is believable and authentic, no matter what age he plays. […] Binder makes it all seem easy, talking to us as if we’re all friends.

Nancy Stetson, Florida Theatre Onstage on Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing - BWW

Jeffrey Binder does an excellent job carrying this show. He portrays all of the emotion perfectly, and his acting is, in a word, brilliant.

Elizabeth James, Broadway World on Every Brilliant Thing

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Florida Weekly

This production offers audiences the opportunity to experience the craft of acting at its highest level. Hylton and Binder infuse Martha and George with nuance and skill — watching them banter, cajole, seethe, attack, manipulate and change tactics is a masterclass in theater excellence.

Kristin Voit, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in Florida Weekly