Biography

As an actor, D.E. has worked with many independent theatres in New York, including Metropolitan Playhouse, Inwood Shakespeare, Inverse Theare Company, The Shakespeare Project, and North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL). Regional work includes seasons with The Virginia Shakespeare Festival, The Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (when known as Fahrenheit Theatre Company), and co-founding the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, directing the first professional production of Shakespeare's Edward III in the eastern United States. D.E. has workshopped new plays as an actor with many film and theatre groups, including the Cleveland Play House, Myriad Arts, and the Mark Taper Forum. Several seasons of outdoor historical drama in the South culminated in the title role in Harrodsburg, Kentucky's The Legend of Daniel Boone, also serving as Fight Captain and later playing a lead role in the new outdoor drama Shadows in the Forest. International performances include cultural festivals in Budapest, Belgrade, Sibiu, and Varna. Behind the scenes, there was at one time frequent work as a lighting designer and electrician for bare-bones theatre endeavours (including an OOBR Award with Vital Theatre Company). M.F.A.; The Cleveland Play House & Case Western Reserve University Professional Actor Training Program.

D.E. later pursued education in the law at Indiana University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, earning a J.D. from the latter with concentrations in Litigation, Corporate Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, and Public Law & Regulation, passing the New York Bar exam in 2012 and 2019 (UBE) after a several weeks of self-study, mainly spent in the NYPL's Rose Public Reading Room and the coffeehouses of Cleveland. Recent Theatre History doctoral work at the University of Illinois has resulted in a completed monograph on Mimesis in Early Modern Law and Drama. B.A. studies (Theatre and Political Science) were taken up and duly completed at James Madison University in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Long ago, high school days in Virginia saw a state debate divisional championship and a state title in the American Legion Oratorical Contest with a speech on the dangers of Presidential war powers.

The desultory novels Input Masque and Wisdom House are available in bookstores and by the usual websites. Missing Places, a book of poetry and photography, is a bit harder to find.
- IMDb mini biography by: D.E. Frydrychowski