AWARDS:
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Upstage/Downstage Award
Outstanding Performance
The Fever by Wallace Shawn : Directed by John Wilkins
Marie & Bruce by Wallace Shawn : Directed by John Wilkins
"Reinholdt is superb in all four plays, but his sensitive performance in The Fever is an absolute knockout. He's also terrific as the emotionally stunted Bruce in Marie and Bruce."
"One of the Top 10 Bay Area Actors, 2010"
-- TalkinBrodway.com
Current Project: THE COAST OF UTOPIA: VOYAGE
by Tom Stoppard
"Stoppard's riff on pre-revolutionary Russia begins on a family estate where passionate ideals and fraught expectations are the name of the game. Produced only once previously in the United States, at New York City's Lincoln Center, the first part of this amazing trilogy is an epic and satisfying journey through Russian history and intellectualism. Come meet the passionate, idealistic young men and women who struggle for freedom. This poetic masterpiece is Tom Stoppard -- arguably the greatest living English language playwright -- at his very best. Don't miss it!"
ADVANCE RESERVATIONS STRONGLY ADVISED -- "VOYAGE" HAS BEEN SELLING OUT EVERY PERFORMANCE OF THE RUN...
Previous Shows - Information & Reviews:
I am very pleased and honored at all of the "Best of 2010" Awards and nominations that our Shotgun Players production of "The Norman Conquests" trilogy received. The Bay Area Critics Circle gave us FIVE nominations, including one for Best Show (100-399 seat theater), Direction (Joy Carlin), Supporting Performances (Sarah Mitchell & Josiah Polhemus) -- and they nominated me for Principal Performance for Norman. http://sfbatcc.org/
Other love we got includes making the SF Bay Guardian, SF Bay Times & Talkin' Broadway "Top 10 of 2010" lists. Talkin' Broadway also named me as one of the "Top 10 Bay Area Actors of 2010." THANK YOU!
Previous Project: IT IS NOT ABOUT POMEGRANATES!
by Sepideh Khosrowjah
Character: Sean Company: Darvag Theater
Preview: Thursday 3/31/11
Performs 4/1- 4/10 at The Boxcar Playhouse, San Francisco
Review:
About the play: Darvag Theater is an Iranian-American theater group that collaborated with us at Shotgun Players in the late 1990s on a couple of projects, notably "The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad" in 1998. "It is not about Pomegranates" is a new play by Darvag member Sepideh Khosrowjah which relates the story of two lovers -- one Iranian and one American -- and takes on the various cultural, political and gender issues that arise from their encounter.
Previous Project: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS by Alan Ayckbourn
Character: Norman Company: Shotgun Players
Performs 8/6/10 - 9/12/10 at The Ashby Stage, Berkeley
Tickets and More Info:
Reviews: "
Reinholdt, however —- with saucy beard, bounding playfulness and mischievous glint —- is downright revelatory in the titular role, delivering a performance that not only gives boisterous heft to the proceedings but probes the moral dimensions of love in an age of crass individualism and lingering prudery.
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"Mr. Reinholdt rises to the challenge... Exceptional acting from these exceptional actors. " - John A. McMullen II, The Berkeley Daily Planet
"Reinholdt is charismatic... he has a field day playing all sides of the manipulative Norman. He is a master of extended monologue...a deliciously controlled degree of gusto...Ayckbourn and British farce at its finest." "Reinholdt looks and acts like a charming teddy bear... it's a tour de force of droll acting with expert timing." - Richard Connema, Talking Broadway San Francisco
"A Fine 'Conquest' - The actors are lions, even though some pretend to be lambs....terrific comedy." - Rachel Swan, The East Bay Express
"The one character who defies easy direction, design or classification is Norman. He is at once brazen in his advances and craven in his marriage. He could easily have a good time elsewhere, yet he spends his entire weekend in this house. Why? Does he crave his family’s attention, or does he relish the opportunity to ridicule? Whatever his motivations (and, for better or worse, Reinholdt expertly keeps us guessing), Norman is the only character in this self-involved family capable of listening to and engaging with another human being. When societal norms don’t allow real connection, what you need, Ayckbourn seems to say, is a Norman." -- Lily Janiak, San Francisco Bay Times
"[Norman's] childlike appetite for affection and disregard for propriety or convention carry the day... It is worth the return trips to Ashby Stage to see all three of these charmingly hilarious plays. Each has something new to offer its audience, and affection for these characters only deepens with time." - Gwen Kingston, The Daily Californian (Living Together)
Review Norman Conquests Shotgun Players
