GEOFFREY KENT is a core company member of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival where he has performed for seven years. This summer he will play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and reprise his role in a remount of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Past roles at CSF include Aramis in The Three Musketeers, Macduff in Macbeth, Dull in Love's Labour's Lost, The King of France in All's Well That Ends Well, Octavius Caesar in Julius Caesar, Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, Laertes in Hamlet, Don John/Cooter in Much Ado About Nothing, and Antipholus of Syracuse and Antiphouls of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, the last of which garnered him a Denver Post Ovation nomination for "Best Actor in a Comedy."
Geoffrey has also appeared at the Denver Center Theatre Company as Ratcliffe in Richard III and a member of the ensemble in Hamlet. He recently played James & Brendan in Curious Theatre Company's production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore (which was selected for a Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Comedy) and appeard as Officer Lockstock in the regional premiere of Urinetown: the Musical which landed him Westword's "Best Supporting Actor in a Musical" and a Henry nomination. Other recent credits include a sold out run as Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries for Foothill Theatre Company, the lizard Leslie in Albee's Seascape with Modern Muse, swashbuckling Andrew in I Hate Hamlet for the Aurora Fox and multiple roles in the long running Metamorphoses with the Avenue Theatre.
Upcoming roles
A run of Complete Works for the Utah Shakespearean Festival
Reprising his role of Crumpet in a run of The Santaland Diaries for Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company
The Denver Center Theatre Comapny's world premiere of Eventide.
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