Vince Gatton is a New York-based actor and writer. He’s happy to be returning to die Gründerzeit here at CVRep, having played the roles of Charlotte, Doug, and the rest at Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires, and for Two Turns Theatre Company in a site-specific staging in Brooklyn. He received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play in David Johnston’s Candy and Dorothy, which he also performed at Wellfleet Harbor Actors’ Theater in Cape Cod. Other notables: Cock at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca; Fully Committed at Barrington Stage; The Temperamentals at New World Stages, standing by for Michael Urie; Exquisite Potential for Project Rushmore; and The Americans and Johnston’s Busted Jesus Comix with Blue Coyote Theater Group. He has worked with Tectonic Theater Project on the development of various projects, including Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations and Leigh Fondakowski’s SPILL. A founding board member of New York Shakespeare Exchange, he has appeared in NYSX’s Titus Andronicus, King John, The Sonnet Project, and many ShakesBEER Pub Crawls. His short play In The Whole History of Hi-Q was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Short Playwriting Award at the City Theatre in Miami, and another short, Jam, won Best Play in the 2015 LIC Short Play Festival at the Secret Theatre. Vince is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and got his BFA in Acting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2012 he lived the trivia nerd’s dream by competing on Jeopardy. He didn’t win. www.vincegatton.com
