Dennis Trainor Jr.
(AEA)

Height: 5'10" | Hair: Black | Eyes: Brown
Phone: 978-727-4433 | Email: dennistrainorjr@gmail.com
Pronouns: He/Him/His

Acting Credits – Theater

Manifest Destiny’s Child – Self, Edinburgh Fringe Fest 2023
Dir: David Esbjornson

Regional

The Comedy of Errors – Egeon/Pinch, Shakespeare and Company
Dir: Kate Kohler Amory

How I Learned To Drive – Uncle Peck, Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Dir: Elaine Von Hogue

The Inheritance – Henry Wilcox, Speakeasy Stage
Dir: Paul Daigneault

The Merchant of Venice – Antonio/MC, Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Dir: Igor Golyak

Let The Right One In – Mr. Avila, Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Dir: Chris V. Edwards

Straight White Men – Jake, New Repertory Theatre
Dir: Elaine Von Hogue

In the Next Room – Mr. Daldry, Speakeasy Stage
Dir: Scott Edmiston

The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? – Ross, Gloucester Stage
Dir: Eric Engel

Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Schmendiman, New Repertory Theatre
Dir: Daniel Gidron

The Pain and the Itch – Cash, Company One
Dir: Bevin O’Gara

The Rainmaker – File, Foothills Theatre
Dir: Chris Webb

November – Grackle, The Lyric Stage
Dir: Daniel Gidron

The Seagull – Shamraev, The Publick
Dir: Diego Arciniegas

Macbeth – Lennox, North Shore Music Theater
Dir: Craig Foley

New York

Waiting for Godot – Vladimir, Expanded Arts
Dir: Jennifer Pias

The Winter’s Tale – Clown, Rude Mechanicals @Soho Rep
Dir: Ryan Rilette

Cellophane – The Martian, The Bats @ Flea Theater
Dir: Jim Simpson

The Black Hole – Mr. Filthy, The Bats @ Flea Theater
Dir: Jim Simpson

Loose Ends – Paul Baumer, Looking Glass
Dir: Marc Weitz

Julius Caesar – Octavius, Kraine Theater
Dir: Jennifer Pias

Macbeth – Banquo, L.I. Shakespeare Festival
Dir: Richard Johnson

Television, Film, and New Media

Acronym TV – Anchor/Host, The Young Turks Network
Dir: Dennis Trainor Jr.

American Autumn – Host/Narrator, Artful Dodger Productions
Dir: Dennis Trainor Jr.

Special Skills & Areas of Interest

Poetic Text, Teleprompter, Dialects (trained in IPA), Juggling (3 objects), Devised Theater, Directing (over 12 productions), Playwright (3 productions), Improvisation, Founding Co-Artistic Director of award-winning NYC-based Rude Mechanicals Theatre Company.

Training

Master of Fine Arts in ActingAmerican Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA
Advanced Scene StudyJoseph Chaikin, New York, NY