IN THE NEWS:
Chester Theater in the New YorkerA fantastic article about the amazing work and growth of the Chester Theater written by Howard Fishman
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The list begins...AGAIN!
Every Brilliant Thing will made its way north to Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The play was presented during their winter season, 2017
Berkshire Theater Critic Association's nominations (and wins!) for Chester Theater's production of Every Brilliant Thing!Every Brilliant Thing garner's two awards in the categories of "Best Solo Performance" and "Best New Play or Musical". Click here to read more about the "Berkies" and the many other wonderful productions that were nominated.
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Every Brilliant Thing!
In August 2017, Joel appeared in the one-man-show Every Brilliant Thing written by Duncan McMillan with Jonny Donahue at the the Chester Theatre Company in Chester, Massachusetts.
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BiographySometimes charming and innocent (Raliegh Brummet, Last Train to Nibroc), other times dark, cunning, and intellectual (Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment), Ripka plays a range of characters in classical and contemporary theater. "Joel Ripka gives a dynamic performance that should be recognized when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette chooses its performer-of-the-year." F. J. Hartland Out Magazine.
Joel began his career in Pittsburgh after study at Point Park University's Conservatory Program. He performed in over 25 Equity productions including many world premieres at many of Pittsburgh nationally recognized houses including the Pittsburgh Public, City Theater, The Rep, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, and Quantum. Now in New York City, Joel has worked off-Broadway in regional theaters across the country. |
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TRAINING
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drama-Point Park College Conservatory, Pittsburgh 2001
ACTING: John Shepard, John Amplas, Rich Keitel, Nancy Chesney, Shirley Tannenbaum, Robin Walsh
ON-CAMERA ACTING: John Shepard
VOICE TRAINING (SINGING AND SPEECH): Dr. Shirley Barasch, Shirley Tannenbaum
ACTING: John Shepard, John Amplas, Rich Keitel, Nancy Chesney, Shirley Tannenbaum, Robin Walsh
ON-CAMERA ACTING: John Shepard
VOICE TRAINING (SINGING AND SPEECH): Dr. Shirley Barasch, Shirley Tannenbaum
SPECIAL SKILLS
Formal training in piano; rock/folk guitar, impersonations, character voices, juggling, manual transmission, Dialects: Scottish, Irish, French, Italian, Cockney, Brooklyn, North Country British, German, High British, New York, Pittsburgh, Southern.
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WORDS, WORDS, WORDS."As Raskolnikov, the poor student, Joel Ripka gives a dynamic performance that should be recognized when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette chooses its performer-of-the-year. Ripka goes through a broad range of emotions. Sometimes he is the docile student, sometimes the mad philosopher, sometimes despondent denizen of the lower depths. It is an electric performance, and Ripka radiates!" -F. J. Hartland, Pittsburgh's Out Online
"Joel Ripka is the Swan, and I mean "IS" and not just is playing. His slow transition from animal into human is heaven to watch. Ripka is agile and handsome in a strangely romantic fashion, and he moves his character forward and upward with single leaps...Ripka is remarkable. He is a bird, and he is a human being and he is a God and he is a brutal and self-supporting animal, all at once and always with a seamless sense of disclosure." -J. Peter Bergman, Berkshire Bright Focus
"Joel Ripka makes a convincing, somewhat wide-eyed young Hamlet. He’s often the straight man to the crazed mentors who woo him. Ripka shines when given the chance..." -Jonathan Levine The Pittsfield Gazette
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