Tony Tsendeas

Tony Tsendeas, Actor, Director and Teacher, Baltimore, Maryland
Tony Tsendeas’ work Tony Tsendeas’ work as an actor, director and writer has received critical acclaim both in the US and Europe. He is the Artistic Director of Action Theater, a Baltimore based professional touring theater (www.actiontheater.org). Tony also is a member of the faculty of the Baltimore School For the Arts, where he teaches acting. His Arts in education experience includes authoring the Baltimore City Middle School Theater Curriculum. In 1998 Tony was nominated as best actor in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by Stage Magazine for his performance in BeckettLand, which he also directed. BeckettLand, a collection of short plays by Samuel Beckett set in a “Ghost carnival” or “bemusement park” received five star reviews and attracted European booking representation for Action Theater. Acting credits include Gary Swirn in “Homicide: Life on the Streets,” Voice over work for The Discovery Channel, Training and independent films and a large number of stage performances. Directing Credits include over 25 professional productions of original material and works by authors such as Samuel Beckett, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, David Mamet, Peter Barnes, Edward Albee and Ring Lardner Jr. Tony is also a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Playwriting award for his play The Adventures of Felix.

Tony Tsendeas, an Artistic Associate for Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and former Artistic Director of Action Theater, is an actor, teacher, writer, and director. He is a theatre faculty member at the Baltimore School for the Arts. At Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Tsendeas has directed Love For Words (By Kimberley Lynne), Othello, Julius Caesar, and most recently The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged.) For BSF’s Teen Performance Program, he has directed Macbeth, As You Like It, and Hamlet. He has also directed plays Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee, as well as original material. As an actor, his roles include Claudius in Hamlet, Caliban in The Tempest, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and The Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and most recently Paroles in All’s Well That Ends Well.

Tsendeas has been seen on television, film, and in theatre in The Death of Poe” Homicide: Life on the Street” – The Heart of a Saturday Night TV Episode “Creepy Canada” The Grave of Edgar Allan Poe/The Ghost of the Silver Run Tunnel/Isle of Demons The Death of Poe The Fall Before Paradise and more.