Gary Rucker

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Height: 5'10" · Hair Color: Brown · Eye Color: Blue · Training: MFA - University of New Orleans · Hometown: New Orleans, LA · Born: 5/24/1972 · High School: Brother Martin High School · College: University of New Orleans · Occupation: Professor of Practice - Tulane University

Gary is a co-founder of FourFront Theatre.
www.fourfronttheatre.com

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Stage Credits:



Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald	....	Assassins (10/2008)

Doug Simon *	....	Gutenberg! The Musical! (8/2008)

Evil Eye Fleagle	....	Li'l Abner (7/2008)

Tranio	....	The Taming Of The Shrew (5/2008)(1/2008)

Bertie Wooster *	....	By Jeeves (5/2008)

Gino Capaletti (4 performances) *	....	Joey & Mary's Irish Italian Wedding (5/2008)

Arles Struvie, Didi Snavely, Petey Fisk, Jody Bumiller, Charlene Bumiller, Stanley Bumiller, Vera Carp, Dixie Deberry, Helen Bedd, Farley Burkhalter, Garland Poteet *	....	A Tuna Christmas (11/2007)

Riff Raff *	....	The Rocky Horror Show (10/2007)(10/2006)

Pinchley, Jr.; Benny Buchsbaum; Defense Lawyer; Priest; Yulnick *	....	Little Me (6/2007)

Prez *	....	The Pajama Game (5/2007)

Himself	....	Swingin' With The Stars (3/2007)

Fred Narracott	....	And Then There Were None (3/2007)

Hysterium *	....	A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1/2007)

Narrator #3 *	....	Yuletide (11/2006)

"Cinderella"	....	Marquee Awards 2006 (8/2006)

Ariel; Ferdinand; Trinculo *	....	The Tempest (8/2006)

Demetrius	....	A Midsummer Night's Dream (7/2006)

Rumpelstiltskin	....	Rumpelstiltskin (7/2006)

Euthanasia	....	Cinderella (6/2006)

Demetrius	....	A Midsummer Night's Dream (4/2006)

The Actor *	....	The Woman In Black (3/2006)

Gary	....	Cinderella: A Girl's Fairy Tale With Two Boys (12/2005)

Arles, et al. *	....	Greater Tuna (10/2005)

Gary *	....	The Bible: The Complete Word Of God (Abridged) (8/2005)

Roderigo *	....	Othello (7/2005)

Pecos Bill	....	Pecos Bill (7/2005)

Launcelot Gobbo	....	The Merchant Of Venice (6/2005)

Muddle	....	Snow White (6/2005)

Tom Sawyer *	....	Big River (5/2005)

St. George	....	St. George And The Dragon (4/2005)

Herod *	....	Jesus Christ Superstar (3/2005)

Superman	....	Habit (3/2005)

Dud, Penelope, Headmaster, *	....	Good Evening (2/2005)(12/2004)

Voice Over/Igor	....	Monster Mash (10/2004)

Pablo Picasso	....	Picasso at the Lapin Agile (9/2004)

Malcolm	....	Macbeth (7/2004)

Catesby	....	Richard III (7/2004)

Husband; Hare; Turtle; Yrag the Extremely Silly	....	Shorts (7/2004)

Hansel	....	Hansel and Gretel (6/2004)

Neal Tilden *	....	The 1940's Radio Hour (5/2004)

March Hare; Carpenter; Cook	....	Alice In Wonderland (3/2004)

Ramses	....	Eat Pudding (1/2004)

Reginald Rooster	....	The Legend of Santa Pig (12/2003)

Ferdinand	....	Go Jump In The Lake! (10/2003)

Danny *	....	Sexual Perversity in Chicago (9/2003)

Billy Bibbit	....	One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (7/2003)

Skim-Scam	....	The Emperor's New Clothes (7/2003)

Aladdin	....	Aladdin (6/2003)

Jerry / Daphne *	....	Sugar (5/2003)

Ellard Simms	....	The Foreigner (3/2003)

Greg #67 *	....	A Chorus Line (2/2003)

The Elf *	....	The Santaland Diaries (11/2002)

Bobby Child *	....	Crazy For You (9/2002)

Rumpelstiltskin	....	Rumpelstiltskin (7/2002)

Euthanasia	....	Cinderella (6/2002)

Thomas Jefferson *	....	1776 (5/2002)

Eugene Jerome *	....	Broadway Bound (3/2002)

Moon; Cyclone; Narrator	....	Pecos Bill (7/2001)

Magic Mirror	....	Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs (6/2001)

Little Harp *	....	The Robber Bridegroom (5/2001)

Andrew Rally *	....	I Hate Hamlet (3/2001)

Max *	....	Lend Me A Tenor (11/2000)

Skim-Scam	....	The Emperor's New Clothes (7/2000)

Hansel	....	Hansel & Gretel (6/2000)

Biondello	....	The Taming Of The Shrew (5/2000)

Lorenzo	....	The Merchant of Venice (4/2000)

Lucky	....	The Ice Dragon (12/1999)

Junior Dobbs	....	Lot's Daughters (11/1999)

Bill Snibson *	....	Me And My Girl (9/1999)

Barry Klemper	....	The Boys Next Door (7/1999)

Husband; Hare; Turtle; Yrag the Extremely Silly	....	Shorts (7/1999)

Del Decosta / Mahoney	....	City Of Angels (6/1999)

Aladdin	....	Aladdin (6/1999)

Mark	....	Not Waving... (5/1999)

Molina	....	Kiss Of The Spider Woman (4/1999)

	....	Compleat Wrks Of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (2/1999)(7/1998)

Flint	....	Something's Afoot (1/1999)

Gustave-Hippolyte Worms	....	Ladies Of The Camellias (11/1998)

Leopold Zborowski	....	Modigliani (10/1998)

Danny *	....	Baby (5/1998)

Rooster *	....	Annie (4/1998)

Gino Cappelini *	....	Joey & Mary's Irish-Italian Wedding (2/1998)

Horace	....	The Amorous Flea (1/1998)

Interviewee	....	Dr. Sex (11/1997)

Centipede *	....	James And The Giant Peach (10/1997)

Fabian	....	Twelfth Night (10/1997)

Ben *	....	Goldilocks - The Story Of One Girl's Porridge (8/1997)

Ray / Scarecrow *	....	The Wizard Of Oz - The Dorothy Gayle Story (7/1997)

Hugh Cameer	....	Comedy Of Murders: Murder On The Bench (6/1997)

Eddie *	....	Blood Brothers (4/1997)

Garry Lejeune *	....	Noises Off (10/1996)

John the Baptist; Judas *	....	Godspell (8/1996)

Prince Percy	....	Rumpelstiltskin (7/1996)

Brother Lawrence *	....	Some Things You Need To Know Before The World Ends (A Final Evening With The Illuminati) (2/1996)(9/1995)

Eugene Marchbanks	....	Candida (2/1996)

Bob Cratchit	....	Scrooge: The Stingiest Man In Town (12/1995)

Pompey	....	Measure For Measure (12/1995)

Harvey Canale, Jr.	....	Cinderella Battistella (7/1995)

Lonny Hutchins	....	The Battle Of Shallowford (7/1995)

Tom Sawyer *	....	Big River (5/1995)

Chantal	....	La Cage Aux Folles (4/1995)

Seymour *	....	Little Shop Of Horrors (2/1995)

Thomas Diafoirus	....	The Imaginary Invalid (11/1994)

Scarecrow *	....	The Wiz (5/1994)

Male (Acrobats) *	....	One-Act Play Marathon (12/1993)

Puck *	....	A Midsummer Night's Dream (11/1993)

Harold (5th Anniversary) *	....	Treehouse Players' Rapunzel (1/1993)

Johnson	....	How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (9/1992)

Doody	....	Grease (3/1992)

Schroeder	....	You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (9/1990)

Gus *	....	Babes In Arms (7/1990)

Scarecrow *	....	The Wizard Of Oz

Jack *	....	Into The Woods

Linus	....	Snoopy!!!

Bushy; Surrey; Groom	....	Richard II

The Clown	....	The Winter's Tale

Costard	....	Love’s Labour’s Lost

Clifford	....	Side Man
*=leading role

Offstage Credits:



Director	....	All Shook Up (1/2009)

Producer	....	The History Boys (10/2008)

Director; Producer	....	Gutenberg! The Musical! (8/2008)

Director	....	By Jeeves (5/2008)

Director	....	For Better (4/2008)

Director	....	A Flea In Her Ear (2/2008)

Director	....	Grease (1/2008)

Director	....	Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (11/2007)

Director	....	Arsenic And Old Lace (11/2007)

Director; Co-Producer	....	The Rocky Horror Show (10/2007)(10/2006)

Director	....	Thoroughly Modern Millie (9/2007)

Director; Set Design	....	The Pajama Game (5/2007)

Master of Ceremonies	....	Big Easy Theater Awards 2007 (4/2007)

Director; Photographer; Publicity	....	And Then There Were None (3/2007)

Director; Photographer; Publicity	....	A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1/2007)

Director; Photographer; Publicity	....	Barefoot In The Park (11/2006)

Director	....	Romeo And Juliet (10/2006)(8/2006)

Director	....	Urinetown: The Musical (9/2006)

Director	....	The Tempest (8/2006)

Director	....	South Pacific (5/2006)

Director	....	Over the Tavern (4/2006)

Director	....	The Woman In Black (3/2006)

Director; Photographer; Publicity	....	The Odd Couple (3/2006)

Director	....	Nunsense II: The Second Coming (1/2006)

Director; Writer	....	Cinderella: A Girl's Fairy Tale With Two Boys (12/2005)

Director	....	The Bible: The Complete Word Of God (Abridged) (8/2005)

Director	....	Two Gentlemen Of Verona (8/2005)

Director; Set Construction	....	Big River (5/2005)

Director	....	St. George And The Dragon (4/2005)

Director	....	Eating Raoul - The Musical (2/2005)

Director	....	The Fantasticks (1/2005)

Director	....	Cinderella Battistella (11/2004)

Director	....	Damn Yankees (9/2004)

Director	....	The Comedy of Errors (7/2004)

Director	....	Alice In Wonderland (3/2004)

Director	....	The Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940 (3/2004)

Director	....	The Legend of Santa Pig (12/2003)

Director	....	Rio Seco (10/2003)

Director	....	Go Jump In The Lake! (10/2003)

Director	....	The Foreigner (3/2003)

Director	....	The Taming Of The Shrew (8/2002)

Director	....	A Day With Dr. Seuss (7/1999)

Director	....	Alice In Wonderland (7/1998)

Sound Board	....	Italian Opera (11/1996)(7/1996)

Director; Set Construction; Costumes	....	The Wiz (5/1994)

Director; Set Design; Props Design	....	Snoopy!!!

Director	....	Keep It Klean

Stage Awards and Nominations:

1995 Big Easy Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Big River
1995 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Supporting Actor in a Musical - Big River
1995 Irene Ryan Nomination - The Illuminati
1997 Storer Boone Nomination - Blood Brothers
1997 Irene Ryan Nomination - Dr. Sex
1998 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Baby
1998 Storer Boone Award - Best Actor in a Comedy - The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
1998 Kennedy Center Honorable Mention Award for Outstanding Performance - The Ladies of the Camellias
1999 Marquee Nomination - Supporting Actor in a Drama - Not Waving...
1999 Big Easy Nomination - Supporting Actor Comedy / Drama - The Boys Next Door
1999 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Comedy - The Boys Next Door
1999 Big Easy Award - Best Actor in a Musical - Me and My Girl
1999 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Me and My Girl
1999 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Musical - Me and My Girl
2000 Big Easy Nomination - Best Actor in a Comedy / Drama - Lend Me a Tenor
2000 Storer Boone Award - Best Actor in a Comedy - Lend Me a Tenor
2000 Marquee Award - Lead Actor in a Comedy - Lend Me a Tenor
2000 Marquee Nomination - Supporting Actor in a Musical - The Ice Dragon
2001 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Comedy - I Hate Hamlet
2001 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy - The Winter's Tale
2002 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Comedy - Broadway Bound
2002 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Supporting Actor in a Musical - 1776
2002 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy - Love's Labour's Lost
2002 Big Easy Nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Crazy For You
2002 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Crazy For You
2002 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Musical - Crazy For You
2002 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Actor in a Comedy - The Santaland Diaries
2003 Storer Boone Award - Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy - The Foreigner
2003 Storer Boone Award - Best Director of a Comedy - The Foreigner
2003 Marquee Nomination - Supporting Actor in a Comedy - The Foreigner
2003 Marquee Nomination - Director of a Comedy - The Foreigner
2003 Marquee Nomination - Director of a Comedy - Rio Seco
2003 Big Easy Nomination - Best Actor in a Musical - Sugar
2003 Big Easy Nomination - Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy / Drama - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2004 Marquee Award - Best Director of a Comedy - The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
2004 Big Easy Nomination - Best Director of a Musical - Damn Yankees
2004 Storer Boone Award - Best Director of a Musical - Damn Yankees
2004 Marquee Award - Director of a Musical - Damn Yankees
2004 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Actor in a Comedy - Picasso at the Lapin Agile
2004 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Comedy - Picasso at the Lapin Agile
2005 Storer Boone Award - Best Supporting Actor in a Musical - Big River
2005 Storer Boone Award - Best Director of a Musical - Big River
2005 Marquee Award - Director of a Musical - Big River
2005 Marquee Nomination - Lead Actor in a Comedy - The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)
2005 Marquee Nomination - Director of a Comedy - The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)
2006 Big Easy Nomination - Best Director of a Comedy - Over the Tavern
2006 Storer Boone Award - Best Director of a Comedy - Over the Tavern
2006 Big Easy Nomination - Best Director of a Musical - Urinetown: the Musical
2006 Storer Boone Award - Best Director of a Musical - Urinetown: the Musical
2006 Marquee Award - Director of a Musical - Urinetown: the Musical
2006 Marquee Nomination - Director of a Comedy - The Odd Couple
2007 Big Easy Award - Best Director of a Musical - Thoroughly Modern Millie
2007 Big Easy Award - Best University Production - Dog Sees God
2007 Storer Boone Nomination - Best Director of a Comedy - Arsenic and Old Lace
2007 Storer Boone Award - Best Director of a Musical - Thoroughly Modern Millie