Biography
of TOBIAS ANDERSEN
featured
in "BEETHOVEN UNLIMITED" Concert
Saturday, October 2, 2004
at 8:00 pm AND
Sunday, October 3, 2004 at 3:00 pm, Kaul Auditorium, Reed College
TOBIAS
ANDERSEN is Artistic Director of Mt.
Hood Repertory Theatre's "American Classics Festival", directing
Born Yesterday, Huckleberry Finn, and A Thurber Carnival.
He
portrayed Drummond in Inherit The Wind and Elwood in Harvey (directed by Michael
Wise). With the Rep, he recently recreated for the Portland Public Libraries'
"Everybody Reads" program, the role of Fire Captain Beatty, which
he originated in the first stage production of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
A
veteran of regional theatre, Mr. Andersen has been Resident Artist with such
noted companies as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival,
Milwaukee Repertory and Playmaker's Repertory of Chapel Hill, appearing in such
diverse roles as Falstaff in Henry IV, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Gloucester
in King Lear, Summerhays in Misalliance, Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Vandergelder
in Hello, Dolly, Squire Western in Tom Jones, Jorgenson in Other People's Money,
and Saunders in Lend Me A Tenor. His critically acclaimed portrayal of famed
American jurist Clarence Darrow has been seen throughout United States and abroad.
He
has been a frequent performer with the Oregon Symphony's "Nerve Endings"
concerts, appearing as Josef Stalin in Musical Expressions of Political Outrage,
Freud in Sigmund Freud and the Dreams of Gustav Mahler, Beethoven in Anatomy
of the Fifth, and most recently on PBS as the "Lecturer" in the Verdi
"Defiant" Requiem. Hollywood years include featured roles on such
TV classics as Little House on the Prairie, Newhart, Roseanne, Knot's Landing
and Bonanza. His most recent network appearance was as Chicago Sun-Times editor,
Dean Evans, in the Ann Landers bio film, Take My Advice, starring Wendy Malick.
As
resident of Portland, Oregon, his appearances include Prospero in The Tempest,
Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird, Higgins in My Fair Lady, C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands,
The Stage Manager in Our Town, Darrow in Never the Sinner, Scrooge in A Christmas
Carol, Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers, Shamreyev in The Seagull,
C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands, Charlie in Seascape, and Jim in Tales of the Lost
Formicans, for which he received Portland's Best Actor "Drammy" award.
