Ted Hoerl

A Bit About Me

In a fifty-year-long career, TED HOERL’s extensive directing credits include Redtwist
productions of Collected Stories and Keely and Du; he also appeared in the Redtwist
production of Death of a Salesman. Additional directing credits include And Miss
Reardon Drinks a LIttle (New American Theatre); Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Vine
Productions); Michael Frayn’s Chinamen (Prairie Dell’Arte Theatre); Twilight Serenade
(Red Hen Theatre); Charlie’s Oasis, Museum and Bar (New Tuners); Frankie and
Johnny in the Claire de Lune (Gorilla Tango); King of Hearts (Shoestring Theatre at the
University of Chicago); Alarms and Excursions (Cobalt Theatre; Jeff Nomination, Best
Ensemble); The Flu Season and Stage Door (North Central College); Lips Together,
Teeth Apart (Eclipse Theatre); Arcadia (Promethean Theatre); and seven productions at
the Theatre Conservatory of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt
University. Other acting credits include Bus Stop, Knights of the Round Table, Woman
in Mind, Haunting Julia and Plaza Suite (Eclipse Theatre); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
and A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); Arcadia, Arms and the Man and The
Importance of Being Earnest (Remy Bumppo); The Little Foxes and Buried Child
(Shattered Globe); The Weir and 1776 (Signal Ensemble); Are You Now or Have You
Ever Been? (Jeff Award: Best Ensemble), A Doll’s House and The Millionairess (Next
Theatre); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Promethean); Dreamboy and Fascination (About
Face; founding member); and Incident at Vichy (Writer’s Theatre). Most recently he
appeared as Vanya in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Dunes Summer
Theatre).