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Ray Aranha Biography (1939-)

Born May 1, 1939, in Miami, FL. Addresses: Agent: HWA Talent Representatives, 220 East 23rd St., #400, New York, NY 10010-4606.; Contact: c/o GPO Box 1743, New York, NY 10001.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Playwright, actor, director, teacher

Birth Details

May 1, 1939

Miami, Florida, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Bill Lewis, Hot L Baltimore, Hartford Stage Company, CT, 1974
• Frederick Douglas, One Wore Blue: One Wore Grey, Hartford Stage Company, 1974
• Farmworker, On the Season, Hartford Stage Company, 1974
• One man show, I Am Black, Hartford Stage Company, 1974
• A Mexican, Folklorico (children's show), Hartford Stage Company, 1974
• Title role, Purlie Victorious, Waldo-Astoria Dinner Theatre, 1974
• Johnson, The Brownsville Raid, O'Neill Theatre Centre, Waterford, CT, 1975
• Eddie/Daddy, My Sister, My Sister, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, WI, 1976
• Kgaravu, The Dozens, Tiffany's Attic Dinner Theatre, 1976
• Benjamin Banneker, The Estate, Hartford Stage Company, 1976
• Title role, Macbeth, Champlain Shakespeare Festival, 1977
• Galactic Jack, Tooth of Crime, Stage West, 1977
• Title role, Othello, Champlain Shakespeare Festival, 1978
• Joe, The Shadow Box, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA, 1978
• Dandelion, Benefit of a Doubt, Folger Theatre Group, Washington, DC, 1979
• Corin/Hymen, As You Like It, Folger Theatre Group, 1979
• Duncan, Macbeth, Folger Theatre Group, 1979
• Farmer Banks, Wild Oats, Folger Theatre Group, 1979
• Reuben, Zooman and the Sign, Negro Ensemble Company, NY, 1980
• Lt. Colonel Frank Harrow, Appear and Show Cause, Cleveland Playhouse, 1982
• Steve, A Lesson from Aloes, South Jersey Repertory Theatre, 1983
• Verrazano Narrows (a wino), Dimion's Dance, South Jersey Repertory Theatre, 1984
• Professor/Panhandler, City Lights, People's Light and TheatreCompany, 1984
• Jim Bono, Fences, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1985, then 46th Street Theatre, New York City, 1987-88
• The Shattering, Players Theatre, New York City, 1996
• Ben, Spirit North, Crossroads Theater, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998
• Major Tours
• I Am Black, one man show, Midwest cities, 1971-72
• Willie, Master Harold and the Boys, U.S. cities, 1983-84
• Stage Director
• Lizzie, Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University, 1982
• Sons and Fathers of Sons, Alliance Theatre, 1982
• Fugue on a Funny House, Alliance Theatre, 1982
• Film Appearances
• Cop in bathroom, A Stranger Is Watching, 1982
• Arthur, Five Corners, 1987
• Errol, City of Hope, 1991
• Bruford Jamison, Sr., DROP Squad, 1994
• Janitor, Die Hard: With a Vengeance (also known as Die Hard 3), 1995
• Luis Montoya, Dead Man Walking, 1995
• James Bone, City Hall, Columbia, 1996
• Soapy, Box of Moonlight, Box of Moonlight Pictures Corp., 1996
• Can man, Twisted, GM Films, 1997
• The Kid, Cinepix Film Properties, 1997
• Professor Aranha, Deconstructing Harry, 1997
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Nick Williams, Married People, ABC, 1990
• Mr. Mike (Stan's dad), The Heights, Fox, 1992
• Movies
• Rev. Foy, Hallelujah, PBS, 1993
• Specials
• George, Bodyguards, ABC, 1995
• Episodic
• Dr. Henry "Papa Doc" Doirnell, "Wager," Law & Order, NBC, 1994
• Jameel Johnson, New York Undercover, Fox, 1994
• Captain Anderson, "The Tale of Train Magic," Are You Afraid of the Dark?, 1995
• Mr. Carson, Swift Justice, UPN, 1996
• Mel Dunston, "Is It a Crime?" New York Undercover, Fox, 1997
• James, Cosby, CBS, 1998
• Judge, "Blood Money," Law & Order, NBC, 1999
• Hit-and-run driver, "Journey to the Himalayas," Third Watch, NBC,2000
• WRITINGS
• Plays
• I Am Black, one man show, toured Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma,Wisconsin, Michigan, 1971-72
• My Sister, My Sister, Hartford Stage Company, CT, 1973, Urgent Theatre, 1974, and the Little Theatre, NY, 1974, published by Samuel French Inc., 1974
• The Clowns' Corner Concert (one-act children's play), Hartford Stage Company, 1974, Baltimore Center Stage, 1976
• Way Back When (one-act children's play), Hartford Stage Company, 1975, Baltimore Center Stage, 1976
• The Estate, Hartford Stage Company, 1976, Afro-American Total Theatre, 1978, optioned for public television by the Minority Cultural Project, 1978
• Akosu'a of the First and Final Day, staged reading, Stage West, 1977
• Holidays (New Years) (ten-minute play for dramatic anthology series entitled Holidays), Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, 1979
• The Nature of Violence, commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1979
• Creedmore (one act), commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1980
• Snow-Pressings, Virginia Polytechnical University, 1980, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 1981
• Remington (one act), commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, produced, 1980, published by Theatre Communications Group, Plays-in-Progress, 1980
• Sons and Fathers of Sons, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 1981, Alliance Theatre, 1982, and Negro Ensemble Company, 1983
• The Visions of Fire-Eater (one act), commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1981
• Fugue on a Funny House, staged reading, Alliance Theatre, 1982
• Lizzie, Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University, 1982
• Orphans and Cannibals, 1984
• Television Writing
• The Gift of the Magi, Channel 2, Educational Television, 1967
• Lizzie, Community Television of Southern California, KCET, 1977
• The Soul, PBS, 1977
• Radio Writing
• "The Antique Bearers," Earplay, PBS, 1978