Henry Woronicz is a nationally recognized actor, director, and producer. From 1991-1995, Henry was Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. One of the largest regional theatres in North America, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival produces 11 plays in repertory each year in three performance spaces in Ashland, Oregon. Henry's directing credits at Oregon include Hamlet, The Rehearsal, Pravda, The Glass Menagerie, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, La Bete, Other People's Money, The Second Man, Henry IV part two, Romeo and Juliet, Master Harold...and the Boys, and Sea Marks. He has also directed at the Utah, Alabama, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, the Boston Shakespeare Company, the Meadow Brook Theatre, and the Delaware Theatre Company.
Henry's Broadway acting credits include Trebonious in Julius Caesar at the Belasco Theatre alongside Denzel Washington. His many regional acting credits include the title roles in Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, Henry VIII, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Peer Gynt, as well as the Duke in Measure for Measure, Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Prospero in The Tempest, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Henry has performed at the American Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre, Center Stage, the American Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, and the American Conservatory Theatre. He has also been a guest star on numerous television series including Law and Order, Ally McBeal, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Third Rock from the Sun, Frasier, Cheers, with recurring roles on Seinfeld and Moesha, and was a featured actor in the films Living Out Loud, Primary Colors, and Little Pieces.
In January 2009, Henry joined the faculty of Illinois State University as an associate professor in the School of Theatre, heading a newly revised Master of Fine Arts acting program. Since the fall of 2008, Henry has served in a consulting capacity as Executive Producer of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. He currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana with his long time partner Fontaine Syer, also a nationally recognized director and actress and associate professor in the Indiana University Department of Theatre and Dance.
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