Henry Woronicz (Director)

Henry joins RTC again after directing the 2024 staged reading of August: Osage County. He is a nationally recognized actor, director, producer, and teacher.  He was the Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 1991-1995.  His directing credits at OSF include Hamlet, The Rehearsal, Pravda, The Glass Menagerie, Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, La Bete, Other People’s Money, The Second Man, Henry IV, Part II, Romeo and Juliet, Master Harold…and the Boys, and Sea Marks.  He has also directed at the Utah, Alabama, Illinois, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, the Boston Shakespeare Company, the Seattle Shakespeare Company, the Meadow Brook Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, and the Delaware Theatre Company. Henry’s Broadway acting credits include Trebonious in Julius Caesar at the Belasco Theatre, with Denzel Washington.  Among his many regional acting credits include the title roles in Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Peer Gynt, as well as Mark Rothko in Red, The Poet in An Iliad, the Duke in Measure for Measure, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I, Prospero in The Tempest, Torvald in A Doll’s House, Part 2, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Henry has performed at the La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre, Center Stage,  the American Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, and the American Conservatory Theatre, among others. He has been a guest star on numerous television series, including, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Ally McBeal, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG, Third Rock from the Sun, Frasier, Cheers, with recurring roles on Seinfeld and Moesha, and was a featured actor in the films, Living Out Loud, Primary Colors, The Good Catholic, Ms. White Light, Looking for Lola, and Little Pieces. In 2008-2009, he has also served in a consulting capacity as Executive Producer of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. From 2009-2012 Henry was on the faculty of Illinois State University as an associate professor in the School of Theatre, heading the MFA acting program, and from 2014-2017 he was a visiting professor in the Department of Theatre and Drama and Contemporary Dance at Indiana University.