Gary Sloan

BIO – Gary Sloan has been a professional actor for over thirty five years and has performed primarily in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and throughout the United States in regional theatre.

He performed the role of Walter in Arthur Miller’s The Price at the English Theatre in Vienna, Austria, directed by the stage, television and film veteran, Robert Prosky. He performed the role of Rafi Schachter in a production of DEFIANT REQUIEM: VERDI AT TEREZIN: for the Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference, a Concert at Terezin, CZ.,featuring nationally known soloists and conducted by Maestro Murry Sidlin.

In 2018, he is performing a renewed version entitled, Haunted Prince, A Requiem for Edwin Booth at the British Shakespeare Association Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Mr. Sloan performed and earlier version of Edwin Booth in his one person show; Haunted Prince, the Ghosts of Edwin Booth at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. as part of the Kennedy Center’s Shakespeare in DC Festival 2007.

Television appearances include recurring roles on daytime serials; General Hospital, the Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Search for Tomorrow, General Hospital and in 2004, Alexander Hamilton in Duel: Hamilton vs Burr for the History Channel starring Richard Dreyfuss.

Favorite stage roles include: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Mercutio, Mark Antony, Berowne and Edgar at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Angelo in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure at the Alley Theatre, Jack Rover in Wild Oats and Faust in Goethe’s Faust at the CSC Repertory (NY), Otto Frank in Round House (DC) production of The Diary of Anne Frank, Stanley in Pinter’s The Birthday Party at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, Harold in K-2 for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Turgenev’s A Month In the Country at Arena Stage (DC), Serge in Art for Syracuse Stage, Doc Holliday in Dark Paradise for Cincinnati Playhouse, Bluntschli in Shaw’s Arms and the Man at Virginia Stage Co., Inspector Lestrade in The Crucifer of Blood at the The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Charlie Fox in Mamet’s Speed the Plow at Indiana Repertory, a tour with John Houseman’s The Acting Company and two seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

On stage, he has appeared opposite such recognizable names as Tom Hulce, Peter Gallagher, Sigourney Weaver, Pat Carroll, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Stacy Keach, Fritz Weaver, Stephen Spinella, JoAnna Going, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Learned, Robert Prosky and Hal Holbrook.

Currently, he is transitioning away from Ordinary Professor at The Catholic University of America’s drama program in Washington, D.C. Author of In Rehearsal, published by Routledge, London/New York and continues as a prison practitioner having directed plays and workshops in New York Correctional institutions and Northern Ireland.