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KEN ROHT   •  opcircus@mac.com         



  
Producer/Director/Writer/Choreographer

DANIEL'S ART PARTY Artistic Director of a performing arts festival, Daniel Arts Center/Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA    
                                                                   click: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR REEL 2018-2020

 ORANGE STAR DINNER SHOW Limited AEA Showcase Production 3-Legged Dog, NYC
PERFECT COWBOY an Alternative Family feature film, World Premiere at OUTFEST Film Festival/Breaking Glass Pictures
MISS JULIE(N) Music Theater adaptation of Strindberg classic, 
MorYork Gallery, Los Angeles
99c ONLY SAME-O, AN ELECTRIC BALLAD Holiday Collage Theater Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles
PERMISSIBLE UNION One act opera, LA Dept Cultural Affairs COLA grant Grand Performances, Los Angeles
99c ONLY CALENDAR GIRL COMPETITION Holiday Extravaganza, Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles
GUY/KEN, MEDIA MASH-UP A media fusion with filmmaker Guy Maddin Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles
PAGEANT OF THE SEASONS Holiday Extravaganza, Evidence Room, Los Angeles
ORANGE STAR DINNER SHOW, THE MOVIE Orphean Circus Productions, Los Angeles
ORANGE STAR DINNER SHOW Holiday Extravaganza, Evidence Room, Los Angeles
JONI MITCHELL'S "SONG TO A SEAGULL" Tribute Concert / Fundraiser Evidence Room, and Renaissance Arts Academy, Eagle Rock
BOOTLEG Video Short, Orphean Circus Productions, Los Angeles, Heart Project, Los Angeles
PEACE SQUAD GOES 99 Holiday Extravaganza, Evidence Room, Los Angeles
LAST RESORT Staged Opera Workshop, REDCAT, Los Angeles
GROWING WITH GHOSTS Site-specific Theatrical Installation, Center for the Arts, 
Eagle Rock, CA
TRIBE Theater for Young Audiences L.A. Future Projects - Edgefest, 24th Street Theater, Los Angeles
SPLENDOR, 99 CENT ONLY WONDERAMA, Holiday Extravaganza, Evidence Room, 
Los Angeles
HE POUNCES Progressive Music Theater, Evidence Room, Los Angeles
99¢ ONLY WORLD OF BARGAIN ENTERTAINMENT, Holiday Extravaganza Dance Extravaganza, Evidence Room, Los Angeles
MANKILLER Musical Commissioned by Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater Projects Actors Gang, Los Angeles
ORPHEAN CIRCUS Rock Theater Buena Park Civic Theater, Various Los Angeles locations
BIG, BIG CHRISTMAS WINNERS! Site Specific Musical, Commissioned by the Buena Park Mall, Buena Park, CA
KEN AND THE MERRY KENDALLS Rock Theater, Whirligig Music Festival Ivy Substation, Los Angeles
LARRY SWELL’S BIG BANG Progressive Music Theater, Los Angeles Theater Center, Los Angeles
AN ENJOYABLE EVENING WITH THREE SPECIAL GIRLS Performance Art / Cabaret, Los Angeles Venues 
SOLOMON'S LANDING Dinner Theater, Catalina Island, Los Angeles

Director/Choreographer

ICELAND Folk opera by O-Lan Jones and Emmett Tinley, John Anson Ford Amphitheater, Los Angeles
THE BEHAVIOR OF BROADUS (co-directed/choreo) Musical Theater Sacred Fools, Los Angeles, (Ovation Awards-Best Music and Book)** 
DUKE ELLINGTON’S QUEENIE PIE (also adapted), Music Theater, Long Beach Opera/Chicago Opera Theater
BREASTS OF TIRESIAS/TEARS OF A KNIFE Surrealist One-Act Operas Long Beach Opera, Long Beach, CA
THE BLOODY INDULGENT (also wrote), Low budget feature film starring Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson, Los Angeles
THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK Czech Opera, Long Beach Opera, Long Beach, CA
DARK ROOT OF THE DREAM (also co-wrote), A Gypsy Rock Musical w/ Donovan Leitch, Largo at the Cornonet, Los Angeles
DODOBIRDIE Original Student Play, Occidental College New Play Festival, Los Angeles
BARK! THE MUSICAL Musical theater revue, Theatre Memphis, Tennessee
OOPS I DID BUFFALO BILL Music video for Rob Kendt, Brooklyn, New York
OFFENBACH!!! An Evening of Offenbach Operettas, Summerscape, Bard Summerscape Festival, New York
ECHO'S HAMMER (also wrote/choreographed), Progressive Music Theater Boston Court Theater, Pasadena
ORPHEAN CIRCUS RETROSPECTIVE PAH-TAY (also wrote) Theatrical Concert, Evidence Room, Los Angeles
BAD BAND AND THE FAIRY PEOPLE (also co-wrote), Student-Generated Play L.A. Leadership Academy, Los Angeles
ROYAL PAIN (also co-wrote), Student-Generated Play, L.A. Leadership Academy, 
Los Angeles
TEMPLE OF RA Snake Dance Extravaganza, Sowden House (F.L. Wright Jr. landmark), Los Angeles
IMPERIALIST AT THE CLUB CAVE CANUM (also co-wrote, w/Chuck Mee) Evidence Room, Los Angeles
1ST ANNUAL QUEEN OF SILVERLAKE PAGEANT Beauty Pageant, Sponsored by the Silverlake Chamber of Commerce
ANGEL’S LADIES (co-director), Video/Film Documentary about a Nevada brothel Kitchen Productions, Los Angeles
THE BIRDS (also conceived), Musical Adaptation of the Aristaphones, Theater of NOTE, Los Angeles
GUYS AND DOLLS (directed only), Musical Theater, Buena Park Civic Theater, Buena Park, CA
ROUGHHOUSE SMASHAROO Cabaret-Betty Hutton Revue, Rose’s Turn, New York City
ECHO’S HAMMER (also wrote), Workshop, Progressive Music Theater, Audrey Skirball Kenis Common Ground Festival, Los Angeles
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN Progressive Adaptation, Wilson High School, Long Beach
7 SEALS AND A RIDING MONKEY (also wrote), Progressive Music Theater, Playwrights Arena, Los Angele
LARRY SWELL’S SCHOOL OF DANCE (also wrote), Two Video episodes, TSG Productions/Century Cable, Los Angeles

Choreographer

WOMEN LAUGHING ALONE WITH SALAD Sheila Callaghan play, Kirk Douglas Theater, LA, Dir. Neel Keller  
BENT Martin Sherman play, Mark Taper Forum/Dir. Moises Kaufman
MOSES IN EGYPT, Rossini opera, New York City Opera/ Dir. Michael Counts
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC “360” Staged concert, Park Avenue Armory, NYC/ 
Dir. Michael Counts
VERY MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, IOWA Adaptation of Shakespeare Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ Dir. Christopher Liam Moore
AMERICAN NIGHT Culture Clash w/Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse and Kirk Douglas Theaters/ Dir. Jo Bonney
VERDI’S MACBETH Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts/ Dir. David Schweizer 
AMERICAN NIGHT Culture Clash w/w/Oregon Shakespeare Festival Denver Center Theater Company/ Dir. Sam Woodhouse
DIE LIEBE DER DANAE Strauss Opera, Bard Summerscape Festival, New York/ Dir. Kevin Newbury
THE SHAGGS, Philosophy of the World Off-Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, NY/ Dir. John Langs
MONODRAMAS Progressive Opera,, New York City Opera/ Dir. Michael Counts
IMAGINARY INVALID Adapted Moliere Farce, Oregon Shakespeare Festival,Great Lakes Theater Fest./ Dir. Tracy Young 
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Shakespeare play, South Coast Reparatory/Dir. Mark Rucker
AMERICAN NIGHT Culture Clash w/ Oregon Shakespeare Festival Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ Dir. Jo Bonney
bobrauschenbergamerica Chuck Mee play, SpyAnts Company, Dir. Bart DeLorenzo
PROJECT WONDERLAND Progressive music theater piece, Bootleg Theater/ Dir. Robert Prior
JAMIE CULLUM MUSIC VIDEO “Wheels”, Pulse Films-London, Minneapolis, Minnesota/ Dir. Marc Silver and EMMA 
PEACE Culture Clash adaptation of Aristophanes Getty Villa, Los Angeles/ Dir. Bill Rauch
RUDE AWAKENING A short film, Los Angeles/ Dir. Max Faugno and Charley Allen 
HANGIN' OUT A Naked Revue, Macha Theater/ Dir. Robert Schrock
LUNIK MUSIC VIDEO Lodger Films, Los Angeles/ Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS Commedia-based adaptation, Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ Dir. Tracy Young
HELLO KITTY MUSIC VIDEO for Sanrio Company, Lodger Films, Los Angeles/ Dir. Rob Schroeder
IF YOU ASKED ME music video for Meaghan Smith (Sire Records), Lodger Films Los Angeles/ Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer
POWER OF ATTRACTION music video for Natalia Lesz, Lodger Films, 
Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer
COMPLETE VICTROLA SESSIONS Silent Dance Film, New York City/ Dir. Winsome Brown
ORPHEUS AND EURIDICE Opera by Ricky Ian Gordon, Long Beach Opera, CA/ Dir. Andreas Mitisek
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (also co-composed), Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ 
Dir. Mark Rucker
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Sondheim musical, South Coast Reparatory, Costa Mesa CA/ 
Dir. Stefan Novinski 
ON THE RAZZLE Tom Stoppard play, Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ Dir. Laird Williamson
TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERONA Shakespeare Play, Oregon Shakespeare Festival/ 
Dir. Bill Rauch
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Pop-rock Musical, Starring Donovan Leitch, The Roxy, Los Angeles, Dir. Joe Witt
SEMELE a Hayden Opera, Long Beach Opera/ Dir. Isabel Milenski
HABEAS CORPUS an English Farce by Alan Bennett, South Coast Reparatory, CA/
 Dir. Bill Rauch
STONES IN HIS POCKETS A Play, Mark Taper Forum/ Dir. Neel Keller
THE SHAGGS, PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD A Musical Lookingglass Theater, Chicago/ Dir. John Langs
THE SHAGGS, PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD A Musical Inside the Ford, Los Angeles, Dir. John Langs
LA PERICHOLE opera by Offenbach, Long Beach Opera, CA/ Dir. David Schweizer
BODY OF FAITH, by Luis Alfaro and the LGBT Community, Cornerstone Theater/ 
Dir. Chris Moore
STEPS IN TIME Musical Revue, Hyperion Theater, Disney’s California Adventures, Anaheim CA/ Dir. Damian Grey 
QUOTATIONS FROM A RUINED CITY Experimental Theater, L.A. Festival, New York City and European/ Dir. Reza Abdoh

Special Skills
Astute Problem-solver, Actor, Singer, Songwriter/Choreographer/Dancer/Creepy Characters, Proficient at Final Cut X and Adobe Photoshop 7

KEN ROHT, PERFORMER HIGHLIGHTS: (performer resume upon request)
Featured in a short film by photographer/filmmaker Jacob Sutton, choreographed by Ryan Heffington

Featured dancer in Florence + the Machine music video, choreo by Ryan Heffington
Solo performer in two video art projects for Bill Viola
Performed a lead role in a rock opera with Grace Jones and Billy Zane
Performed Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar
Featured in abstract artist Paul McCarthy’s “Caribbean Pirates” installation
Starred with a live alligator in a System of a Down music video

Performed with Reza Abdoh’s company Dar a Luz for seven years
Sang tenor lead in opera for MacArthur genius/ electronics pioneer John Eaton w/NYCO singers


TRAINING
ACTING:
Sam Christensen, Gloria Molina, Dr. Keith Fowler, Pamela Gordon 
VOICE: James Partridge, Fredric Myrow, Jim Berenholtz
SONG AND DANCE: The Young Americans, UC Irvine

GRANTS
Plum Foundation
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, COLA grant Good Works Foundation
Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater Projects, $45, 000 TIME grant Cultural Innovations
C.A.D.
Durfee Foundation
L.A. Future Projects
Flintridge Foundation
Dance Theater Workshop
California Arts Council grants


MASTER CLASSES, Lecturer/Teacher/Director 
Bard College at Simon's Rock
Brentwood School, Los Angeles
University of South Dakota
Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
CSU Summer Arts, Cal State Fresno
Occidental College, Los Angeles
Cal State Northridge
University of Oregon, Eugene
Cal State Los Angeles
Wichita State University
The Heart Project, high school
LA Leadership Academy, middle school
Renaissance Arts, Eagle Rock, CA, middle school 

Spaufford Detention Center, Brooklyn NY, high school

AWARDS (list upon request)


PUBLICATIONS
Chromogram October 2018
Los Angeles Times, November 2010 
American Theater Magazine, October 2007 
LA Stage, May/June 2005
Lifestyles Magazine, 2004
Los Angeles Times, March 2004 Backstage West, January 2002
... and countless reviews


MORE INFO
Producing Artistic Director, Orphean Circus (since 1990)
Panelist: Community Arts Resources (CARS) Arts Congress
Panelist: Durfee ARC Review
Choreographer/Performer – Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz (1988-1994) 

Member: Evidence Room Theater Company, Lincoln Center Directors Lab Alumni 
               Young Americans 
Professional Music Supervisor for video and film






























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