Jeffrey Baumgartner, Actor and Artist
A professional actor for over twenty-five years, Jeffrey has appreared regionally with such theatres as Chicago's Goodman Theatre as Teiresias in Oedipus Complex (movie clip),
and Robert Fall's King Lear.  

Other credits include:
Henry IV, Part II (Milwaukee Shakespeare)
The Three Musketeers and
King John (Chicago Shakespeare),
Man of la Mancha (Court Theatre),
The Spitfire Grill (Provision Theatre),
Betrayal (Athenaeum),
Art (Bohemian Theatre),
The Mousetrap and
The Play's the Thing (Theatre Building),
Einstein and the Polar Bear
(U of I Summer Studio);
What the Butler Saw,
Arms and the Man,
The Seagull,
I Hate Hamlet,
The Crucible,
The Tempest, and
the titular roles in Vincent,
Macbeth and
Hamlet.

Steppenwolf credits:
Leonid Gaev in Cherry Orchard,
fight director for Diary of Anne Frank and the world premieres of Pacific,
Huck Finn, Gary and
A Blameless Life.

In 2007, he traveled to Greece, appearing in Lysistrata, and a whirlwind tour of the ancient amphitheatres.

Jeffrey Baumgartner is producing artistic director
of Cap-a-pe Productions,
having served as artistic director of
Borealis Theatre Company and
Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival
for fifteen seasons,
as well as providing
the national voice for RELEEV.

A graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory,
where he received an MFA in acting,

Jeffrey was a company member of the Tony Award-winning
Denver Center Theatre Company.

Announcing the Grand Opening of my new digs at JB ArtWorks Studio and Gallery at Flat Iron Arts Bldg June 6-8 featuring new original artworks. On display, some 25-30 works, mostly oils. Click here for more information.

Photo by Jessica Pinkous

Undergraduate studies include University of Wyoming where he was recipient of a track scholarship. In both high school and college he achieved all-American status as a pole vaulter, and proudly holds a 25-year old record at his high school in Fort Wayne, from whence he comes.

Jeffrey will appear this summer in the world premiere musical adaptation of Dangerous Beauty for American Music Theatre in Chicago, and in Persians in the fall for Renaissance Theatre Works in Milwaukee."

Jeffrey Baumgartner is represented by Geddes, Chicago Office 312-787-8333.
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