The Tell-Tale Heart The Song of Job 9:11 beTwixt, beTween & beTWAIN Beyond
Vocal: Tenor Hair/Eyes: dark brown A.E.A.
Height: 5’ 10’’ Weight: 165 lbs www.ashkenasi.net
Film and Television
NORMANDY (The Great Crusade) Gurowski/Pock Warner Bros. (Discovery Channel)
ROTE ERDE Max Kruska Bavaria Film Germany (Mini Series)
KRAFTPROBE Fatsy Telefilm Saar (Feature Film)
New York Theatre
THE WITCH (Yiddish musical) Hotzmach Jewish Repertory Theatre (Off-Broadway)
BETWIXT, BETWEEN & BETWAIN Narrator The Producer's Club Crown Theater
A ROPE IN THE ABYSS Hugh Rabbit Hole Ensemble/Blackbird Theater
THE NIGHT OF NOSFERATU Renfield Rabbit Hole Ensemble/Workshop Theatre
THE TELL-TALE HEART* (solo musical) Protagonist The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatres
GOOD BYE TROUBLE Narrator Elysium - Between Two Continents
LES ARTISTES* Rothko Von Candy FifthStreet Production/Interart Theatre
9/11 THE BOOK OF JOB* Job La MaMa E.T.C.
RICHARD THE SECOND* Richard II Tribeca Lab
SALEM Eliphalet Metropolitan Playhouse
HEIDI (the musical) Tutor Producer’s Showcase
LIBIDOFF David Wilcox Expanded Arts
BOHEMIA ON WRY Allen Ginsburg Theater for the New City
MACBETH Malcolm Studio Theatre
JULIUS CAESAR Casca Expanded Arts
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Launcelot Gobbo Tribeca Lab
DOCTOR FAUSTUS* Good/Evil Angel a.o. NADA Faust festival
A (THE SCARLET LETTER) Chillingworth Ohio Theatre (Tiny Mythic)
KIDNAPGIRL(Rockmusical) Randolph Raskew Collective Unconscious
NIGHTS OF ANNABEL LEE David Poe Golden Fleece Opera Co.
WOYZECK* Georg Buechner’s Ghost Studio Theatre
SELFTORTURE & STREN. EXERCISE Alvin The Trocadero
LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY Durwood Peach NYU Studio Theatre
Regional Theatre/Tours
BETWIXT BETWEEN & BETWAIN Narrator Westport Library
THE NIGHT OF NOSFERATU Renfield Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theatre
GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES Prince, Devil, a.o. Nat. Theater ot the Perf. Arts (tour)
UNCLE ARTHUR One Man Show Geary Street Theatre San Francisco
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Puck Berkshire Ensemble for Theatre Arts
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE & WELL..... Tenor Berkshire Ensemble for Theatre Arts
Theatre International
UNCLE ARTHUR One Man Show Malaysian/Australian Tour
KURT WEILL REVUE 2 Person Revue German Opera Berlin
BEI KROLL 6 Person Operatic Revue Academy of Arts Berlin
STREET SCENE Sam Kaplan JFK Center Berlin
Training B.F.A. in Drama at N.Y.U.
ACTING: Larry Arrick, Michael Engler, Merrit Nelson
VOICE/SPEECH: Chuck Jones, Catherine Gayer, Howard Samuelson
MOVEMENT/DANCE: Benjamin Zemach, Jennifer Breen, Marleen Pennison
Special Skills
IMPROV COMEDY: Stiches Nine (Official N.Y.U. Improv Theatre Troupe)
LANGUAGE: German (fluent, including dialects); French (working knowledge)
ACCENTS: British (Received, Cockney, Cont.), Irish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Yiddish a.o.
PIANO: Accompanist and classical musician
COMPOSER: Several produced musicals*, film scores, incidental scores**, and chamber music
(* denote productions Danny Ashkenasi acted in and composed for)
Awards
Nominated for Innovative Theatre Award as part of Outstanding Ensemble for The Night of Nosferatu
"Ashkenasi is an ingratiating presence on stage."
- Nytheatre.com
"As the backbone of this production, Ashkenasi has an absorbing stage presence. [He and the cast] appear to have mastered a dizzying assortment of trades."
- OffOffOnline.com
"Hugh (the excellent Danny Ashkenasi) ... has had a brain embolism and has changed irrevocably. "
- TheaterOnline.com
"Danny Ashkenasi spin[s] a sad and beautiful love story about Hugh, an opera singer who loses his memory ... Yes, you do get to hear Ashkenasi sing opera, and it sounds convincingly operatic ... [It] is the play's most surreal and mysterious moment."
- OffOffOnline.com
"Danny Ashkenasi [is] spectacular. [He] offers the only believable Renfield I have ever seen."
- NYTheatre.com
"Danny Ashkenasi adeptly transfigures his body and voice into a beastly mental patient."
- TheaterOnline.com
"Danny Ashkenasi is amusingly spooky as the life-eating Renfield."
- BroadwayWorld.com
"As the madhouse inmate Renfield, Danny Ashkenasi is frighteningly accurate. His wide-eyed ranting is zany yet natural, and watching him mime eating flies is nauseating."
- Offoffonline.com
"The cast is especially strong ... Of particular note [is] Danny Ashkenasi, whose Renfield is both grotesque and tragic."
- offoffbroadwayreview
"Ashkenasi's Peter Lorre-like interpretation of Renfield adds much to the experience. "
-The Cape Codder
"Ashkenasi often thrillingly evokes everyday lunacy, finding a creepy (yet intriguing) sexual satisfaction from the murder that most performers might miss; the drained, contented look on his face after smothering the old man is really something to see ...His singing is precisely pitched musically and emotionally"
- Talkin'Broadway.com
"Danny Ashkenasi is a riveting storyteller."
-Hi! Drama Channel 57
"Ashkenasi is certainly wise. He turns Poe's text into a sort of sadistic form of Masterpiece Theatre. His genteel appearance makes his reported activities only more horrifying. His voice has moments of considerable power."
-OffOffOnline.com