Rodney Gardiner

AEA Member
Rodney Gardiner

(he/him)

Playwright and Performer, Smote This, A Comedy About God... and Other Serious $H*T

In ten seasons at OSF: Cord Elam, Oklahoma!; Orson, The Way the Mountain Moved; Cassius, others in Julius Caesar; Terror #4: Blacksmith, UniSon; Feste, Twelfth Night; Tinman, The Wiz; Nathan Detroit, Guys and Dolls; Undertaker, Head Over Heels; Dromio of Louisiana/Harlem, The Comedy of Errors; My Fair Lady; Coughlin, Rook in The Unfortunates; Sir Thomas Grey, Duke of Orleans, Michael Williams in Henry V; Guy, The Imaginary Invalid; Rumour, Pistol, others in Henry IV, Part Two; The Pirates of Penzance; Ben Pettus, American Night; Assistant Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other theatres: Off-Broadway: The King Operetta, The Persians, Marco Millions, others (Waterwell); Wailin’ Walter in his one-man blues narrative, Episodes In Blue; Regional: Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theatre), Metamorphoses (Berkeley Rep), Gem of the Ocean (Fountain Theatre); Master Harold . . . and the Boys (GableStage); Cymbeline, Man of La Mancha(Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Tempest (Shakespeare Center LA). Other: Writer (Waterwell), Director (Urinetown at Ashland High School), Director (Inspector General at University of Southern Oregon). Five years performing in jails, rehab centers, and homeless shelters in Miami, Florida. TV/Film: David Makes Man (OWN), From Scratch (Netflix), Outer Banks (Netflix), Brothers Sun (Netflix), Station 19 (ABC), Erin and Aaron (Nickelodeon), Billy Knight (film with Al Pacino and Charlie Heaton). Education: BFA, SUNY Purchase.