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Stephen Gerald continues to work as an actor and director both in the United States and abroad. As a director, he directed The Playboy of the West Indies and DuBois for the National Theatre of Ghana in Accra, Ghana. This year, he staged a reading of The Peculiar and Sudden Nearness of the Moon by the celebrated playwright Velina Hasu Houston at the Texas Black Playwright's Festival in San Marcos, Texas. As an actor, he appeared in The Life of David Gale (Universal Pictures, 2002), the Oklahoma PBS television mini-series Oklahoma Passage as Jake Henry Jefferson, and as Charon in the Ohio PBS production of the Conrad Cummings opera Eros and Psyche. He was the Police Officer in Adolphus Mekas' experimental film Zamzok. He performed in Texas Stories at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studios in New York; portrayed the role of Thurgood Marshall in Amparo Garcia's musical La Carpe Garcia at the State Theatre in Austin, Texas; and played the role of Gonzalo in the Oberlin Summer Repertory Company's production of The Tempest, starring Patrick Stewart. He was the national spokesperson for NOW Communications and has done many commercials and industrials. He teaches acting occasionally, with his wife, in Tokyo at Nihon Daigaku (Japan University), Japan's premiere actor training school.
Professor Gerald's production work has been cited in The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre (Routledge), African Theatre (Indiana University Press), and African Theatre, playwrights and politics (University of Witwatersrand Press.) He was the John D. Murchison Fellow in the Arts, 1999-2000 and the Grace Hill Milam Fellow in the Arts, 1993-1994. He was invited to the Organizacion Negra Centro Americana conference in Bluefields, Nicaragua, and an awardee for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. He has served on many arts panels including "The Fund for U.S. Artists at international Festivals and Exhibitions" for Arts International in New York City and the Cultural Arts Committee for the City of Austin and was a presenter at the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival and the Africa in America UNESCO conference in Austin, Texas. He is a founding member of the African Grove Institute for the Arts, Texas chapter.
He received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University. He pursued further studies at New York University, Yale University, and the Actor's Center in New York City.
