Barrett Foa on CBS' 'NCIS' 4/28, Also Set for Role on TNT's 'THE CLOSER'

BroadwayWorld has gotten scoop that Rialto favorite Barrett Foa has been cast in the pilot of "NCIS: Legend," playing Tech Operator, Eric Beal. 

The two-part pilot for the new series will air as two episodes of the hit CBS show, "NCIS: Navy Criminal Investigative Service."

"NCIS: Legend" will also star LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell. The episodes will air Tuesday, April 28 and Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at 8pm on CBS.

If you miss them, you can watch them online anytime after their shoot date:

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/video/

The episodes are called "Legend: Part 1 and 2.

Foa also just finished shooting what he himself calls "a really juicy guest star on "The Closer" where I get to cry and scream at Kyra Sedgwick". Foa is seen in four scenes as the forlorn Travis Myers.

The episode is set to air on Monday, June 29th, 9pm on TNT 

Again, watch it online after the air date: http://www.tnt.tv/dramavision/?cid=40946

The episode is called "Walking Back The Cat"

Foa was recently seen as hacker-for-hire, Andrew Gibbons on the "First Law" episode of the CBS crime show, "NUMB3RS." He also played Dylan on the ABC series, "Six Degrees."

Mostly known for his musical theatre work, Foa was last seen in two off-Broadway plays:
TIO PEPE at Summer Play Festival at The Public, and Adam Bock's THE DRUNKEN CITY at Playwrights Horizons, as well as a workshop of Bock's newest play, MARCY COMESS HOME.

Prior to that, he played Leaf Coneybear in THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, Princeton/Rod in AVENUE Q, and was in the original cast of MAMMA MIA! all on Broadway, and Cupid in CUPID AND PSYCHE off-Broadway. Foa was introduced to New York when he played Jesus in the highly acclaimed 30th Anniversary revival of GODSPELL, and can be heard on the cast recording.

Regional play credits include Claudio in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Hartford Stage/The Shakespeare Theatre, DC, and THE LADY IN QUESTION by and starring Charles Busch at Bay Street in Sag Harbor. Regional musical credits include Frederic in PIRATES! and Mordred in CAMELOT both at Paper Mill Playhouse and Blake in Henry Krieger's KEPT at TheatreWorks in CA.

Last year he helped developed the workshop productions GIANT by Michael John LaChiusa, and THE NIGHTINGALE by Duncan Sheik. He has been in over four Shaw plays as part of the Project Shaw series.

He can be seen behind Jack Black and next to Maya Rudolph in Marc Shaiman's FunnyOrDie.com video, "Prop 8: The Musical."

 

 

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