Ep2 K. Todd Freeman: Being Despicable

Published: April 19, 2020, 6 p.m.

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In this second episode of Half Hour, Audrey Francis meets up with fellow Steppenwolf Ensemble Member (and her former acting teacher) K. Todd Freeman. The conversation covers what is was like for Freeman when he joined the ensemble, how he prepares to play unsavory characters onstage, and why he will never perform in a two-man show again.

Interview begins at 6:48.

K. Todd Freeman has been a Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1993. At Steppenwolf, he has appeared in Downstate ( Jeff Award; National Theatre London, Evening Standard nomination), Airline Highway (Broadway: Drama Desk Award and Tony Nomination), The Brother/Sister Plays, The Tempest, Art, Topdog/Underdog, A Clockwork Orange, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, One Flew Over the Cuckoo\\u2019s Nest (also Broadway) and The Song of Jacob Zulu (Broadway; Tony Nomination) and has directed The Christians, Good People (Jeff Award for Best Production starring the wonderful Mariann Mayberry) and Master Harold. . .and the Boys for Steppenwolf for Young Adults. Off-Broadway credits include Fetch Clay Make Man (NYTW: Obie Award); Intelligent Homosexual\\u2019s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Spunk (The Public Theatre); and Uncle Tom\\u2019s Cabin (Drama Department). Regional credits include Miss Evers\\u2019 Boys, Angels in America (Mark Taper Forum). Television and film credits include the upcoming Netflix exclusive A Series of Unfortunate Events, Blindspot, The OA, Anesthesia, Weightless, Believe, Law and Order: SVU, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, NYPD Blue, A Different World, A Gifted Man, The Dark Knight, The Cider House Rules, Gross Pointe Blank and for a very brief moment in Pirates of the Caribbean 5.

Learn more at steppenwolf.org

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