About me
In a career spanning four decades as a member of the renowned Trinity Repertory Company’s resident acting ensemble, William Damkoehler appeared in well over a hundred productions, either in Trinity’s home spaces in Providence, RI, or with the company on Broadway, at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival in Scotland, in Boston, in Philadelphia, or on the venerable Straw Hat Summer Theater Circuit. At Trinity, William also served as Director or Musical Director for many mainstage productions. He also served for two years as the acting company’s representative on Trinity’s Board of Directors.
As a Theater Educator, William held for many years the position of Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School Of Design where he established an ongoing Acting and Theater Production elective program in the Liberal Arts Division. He created and directed a touring group of senior citizens who performed “kitchen band” music; the group also wrote and performed their own short comedies around the state of Rhode Island in the Cranston, RI chapter of RSVP — the original federal Retired Senior Volunteer Program. He also taught and directed at Rhode Island College.
In addition to his playwriting, William’s free-lance writing saw non-fiction articles published in The Providence Journal-Bulletin and The New York Times. Excerpts of other fiction appear in the anthologies “For The Love Of Writing” and “The Stories Start Here.”
William currently lives in San Diego, California with his wife, Cynthia Strickland — also retired from Trinity Rep’s acting ensemble.
Experience
Favorite Roles
Macheath: The Threepenny Opera; Ebenezer Scrooge: A Christmas Carol; James Tyrone: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Twelfth Night; Salieri: Amadeus; Robbie Ross: Feasting With Panthers (also PBS television production)
My Plays
SELF STORAGE and THE OCCUPANT (Published by Fomite Press and available on Amazon.)
FAVOR
STAND UP!
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