TOO Podcast Ep. 172 - The Grad School Series | UC Irvine | Andrew Borba
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In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with the Co-Head of Acting at UC Irvine's Clair Trevor School of the Arts, Andrew Borba.
As a stage performer, Andrew has appeared in numerous productions at South Coast Repertory; the Pasadena Playhouse; The Old Globe; the Theatre @ Boston Court; The Antaeus Company and Chalk Rep.; The Rubicon; La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts; Laguna Playhouse; Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the title role in Richard III at the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. He has spent twelve seasons with The Chautauqua Theatre Company and four seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has also worked with Dallas Theater Center; Portland Stage Company in Maine; Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn.; Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; and Hangar Theatre, in Ithaca, N.Y., among others.
Borba’s film credits include The Sweet Life (2016); F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton (2015); Taken 3 (2014); Interstellar (2014); Answers to Nothing (2011); Charlie Wilson’s War (2007); Nine Lives (2005); Live from Baghdad (2002), Path to War (2002) and A Bright Shining Lie (1998). He also starred in the 2011 short film Dead in the Room.
His TV credits include recurring roles on ABC’s Modern Family, CBS’s Criminal Minds and Jericho, FX’s The Shield, Lifetime’s The Client List, UPN’s Star Trek: Enterprise, and guest appearances on more than 30 television series.
As a director, Borba helmed Go West! The Mythology of American Expansion, a multidisciplinary piece with more than 400 performers (dance, opera, theater, visual arts, and a full symphony orchestra) presented in the historic 4000-seat Amphitheater at The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. He created and directed a multidisciplinary piece around Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (2016), and directed Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island (2015) both with Maestro Rossen Milanov and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra; He has directed Hamlet: The First Quarto at Los Angeles’ Theatre of Note (multiple awards including Los Angeles Times: Critics Best 2003, 2 Garland awards (5 nominations), Ovation award nominee. Photos of this production, citations, and quotes from Mr. Borba appear in the current New Cambridge edition of Hamlet: The First Quarto and are referenced in The Arden’s most recent edition of Hamlet: The First Quarto;
He has served on the faculty of the University of Southern California; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Irvine; Juilliard; University of Tennessee; and New York University.
Andrew is the Artistic Director of the prestigious Chautauqua Theater Company and is a member of The Antaeus Theater Company. He is a cum laude graduate of Brown University and received his MFA from New York University.
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Show Credits
Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller
Producer: Jack Burmeister
Music: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.com
Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister