Résumé – Irungu Mutu

TV/Film

LEAVING ISIOLO
Supporting Actor
Dir: Irungu Mutu
Panda Productions

GROW (premiering this Fall)
Principal
Dir: Brian Gottlieb
Wolf Haus Films

Preacher
Guest Star
Dir: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
AMC

Instinct
Co-Star
Dir: Janice Cooke
CBS

The Blacklist
Co-Star
Dir: Michael Watkins
NBC

Power
Co-Star
Dir: Sanford Bookstaver
STARZ

Elementary
Co-Star
Dir: Christine Moore
CBS

Succession
Co-Star
Dir: Mark Mylod
HBO

Boardwalk Empire
Co-Star
Dir: Timothy Van Patten
HBO

Oxalis
Supporting
Dir: Brian Gottlieb
Oxalis Productions

Bikini Moon
Principal
Dir: Milcho Manchevski
Czar Films

Where Does The Time Go
Lead
Dir: Kambui Olujimi
Lincoln Center / KO Films

Maanokoobiyo (The Poet)
Supporting
Dir: K’naan
Sundance Directors Lab

Don’t You See
Supporting
Dir: Loui Terrier
Farenheit Films

Once Upon A Film
Supporting
Dir: Decker
NYCe Productions

Evangeleo
Lead
Dir: Brandon Harris
SUNY-Purchase Thesis Film

Roster
Lead
Dir: Judith Adong
Temple Univ Grad. Film

Lights Out
Lead
Dir: Kambui Olujimi
Columbia Univ. Grad. Film

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Featuring
Dir: Duncan Roy
Third Rock Films

Web-Series

The Feels
Principal
Creators: Tim Manley and Naje Lataillade

Three Trembling Cities
Recurring
Dir: Arthur Vincie
Chaotic Sequence, Inc.

According to my Mother
Principal
Creators: Daniel K. Isaac and Cathy Yan

Off-Broadway/New York Theatre

Here Goes The Neighborhood
Prophet
Dir: Alethea Pace
The Guggenheim

Here Goes The Neighborhood
Prophet
Dir: Alethea Pace
BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance

Mlima’s Tale
Player #2 (understudy & performed)
Dir: Jo Bonney
The Public Theater

Nollywood Dreams
Gbenga Ezie
Dir: Saheem Ali
Cherry Lane Theatre

Yellow Card Red Card
Abdou
Dir: Tamilla Woodard
New Ohio Theater: Ice Factory Festival

Before & After NY (Post- et Préfiguratif)
The Bull
Dir: Zheng Mahler
Performa 2015 Biennal

Our Lady of Kibeho
Blind Man Jeremiah
Dir: Michael Grief
Signature Theater Company

Bikeman
Photographer, Policeman
Dir: Michael Bush
Tribeca PAC (Produced in assoc. with the 9/11 Memorial)

Bronks Ekspres
Flames
Dir: Yuri Skujins
Target Margin Theater

The Moth and the Flame
Fanshaw
Dir: Yuri Skujins
Target Margin Theater

A King of Infinite Space
Lonnie, Charlie
Dir. Jerry Ruiz
NYC SummerStage

Hot l Baltimore
Cab Driver
Dir: Le Wilhelm
Love Creek Productions

As You Like It
Le Beau, Sir Oliver Martext
Dir: Tony White
Love Creek Productions

Regional Theatre

Aubergine
Lucien
Dir: Lisa Peterson
South Coast Repertory

Petrol Station
Joseph
Dir: Sulayman Al Bassam
The Kennedy Center

Macbeth
Lennox
Dir: Les Waters
Actors Theatre of Louisville

The Language Archive
George
Dir: Adam Immerwahr
Bristol Riverside Theatre

Stepping Out of the River at Dawn
Edmond
Dir: Aditi Kapil
Mixed Blood Theatre

The Convert
Chilford
Dir: Michael John Garces
Wilma Theater

The Convert
Chilford
Dir: Michael John Garces
Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Henry V
Cambridge, Governer, Orleans
Dir. Robert Hupp
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Asagai
Dir: Eric Ruffin
Crossroads Theatre

Hijab Tube
Mahmoud, Imam, Steve
Dir: Bill Partlan
Mixed Blood Theatre

Ruined
Commander Osembenga
Dir: Aditi Kapil
Mixed Blood Theatre

Peter and the Starcatchers
Ammm
Dir: Roger Rees & Alex Timbers
La Jolla Playhouse

Memphis
Rev. Hobson, Ensemble
Dir: Chris Ashley
La Jolla Playhouse

Readings/Workshops

Boney Manilli
Sunny
Dir: Edgar Arcenaux
Vielmetter Gallery LA/UCLA-CAP

Farewell Amor
Walter
Writer/Dir: Ekwa Msangi
IFP-Media Center

New Opera ‘Omar ibn Said’ Libretto Reading
Omar Ibn Said
Dir: Rhiannon Giddens
Spoleto Festival USA

The Grove “The Ufot Cycle”
Udom
Dir: Awoye Timpo
New Dramatists

Yellow Card Red Card
Abdou
Dir: Tamilla Woodard
New Dramatists

Three Sisters
Andre Sandifer Peterson
Dir: John-Martin Green
Classical Theatre of Harlem – Classics Revisited Reading Series

Migration
Pullman Porter & Urban League Representative
Dir: John-Martin Green
The Lark

What Passes For Comedy
Tory Browne
Dir: Michael Bush
Capital Repertory Theatre

Now Africa Playwright’s Festival
Various Roles
Dir: Saheem Ali
NYU Tisch – Reise Lounge

As You Like It
Charles & Silvius
Dir: Jessica Bauman
The Actors Fund Arts Center

Katori Hall Cycle
various roles
Dir: Jocelyn Clarke
Arena Stage

Unexplored Interior
Alfonse
Dir: Jay O. Sanders
The Public Theater

The Renegado
Boatswain
Dir: Craig Baldwin
Red Bull Theater

A Question of Country
Reverend
Dir: Ricardo Kahn
Negro Ensemble Co.

Mourning Sun
Get’oum
Dir: Sibusiso Mamba
52nd St. Project Theater

Convert
Chancellor
Dir: Liesl Tommy
McCarter Theater

Jada’s Journal
Malachi & Tommy
Dir: Jade King Carroll
The Playwright’s Realm

Voice Over

McKinsey & Company: Africa Delivery Hub
Narrator
Dir: Steve
McKinsey & Company/Edge Studio, NYC

ICFI: 2015 Kenya Demographic & Health Survey
Narrator
Dir: Sarah
ICF International/Edge Studio, NYC

ICFI: 2014 Kenya Demographic & Health Survey
Narrator
Dir: Sarah
ICF International/Edge Studio, NYC

Roaring Rapids Attraction
Wingu Karibu
Dir: Walt Disney Imagineering
Disneyland Park-Shanghai

Am I Going too Fast?
Man over the Phone
Dir: Chris Myers & Hank Willis
Gates Foundation/Sundance Institute

The Fifth Estate
Nairobi characters
Dir: Bill Condon
DreamWorks/SKG

In Your Words
Narration
Dir: Brendan Fernandez
Karen Blixen Museum, Denmark

UCSD Grad Acting Theater

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Player
Dir: Adam Arian

Pericles
Helicanus, Cleon
Dir: Andrei Belgrader

Good Breeding
The Furious
Dir: Robert O’Hara

Wildflower
Randolph
Dir: Lori Petermann

Medea
Aegeus
Dir: Isis Misdary

Blue Door
Lewis
Dir: Self Directed

Vaudeveaux Nouville!
Champagne
Dir: Tom Dugdale

College Theater

Polaroid Stories
G
Dir: Eric Ruffin
Rutgers Univ./MGSA

Taming Of The Shrew
Petruchio
Dir: Rob Clare
Shakespeare’s Globe-London

Richard III
Tyrell
Dir: Rob Clare
Shakespeare’s Globe-London

Taming of The Shrew
Peter, Ensemble
Dir: Tony Estrella
Univ. of Rhode Island

The Wiz
Ensemble
Dir: Paula McGlasson
Univ. of Rhode Island

Training

MFA Acting – University of California, San Diego.
Studied Under: Kyle Donnelly, James Winker, Ursula Meyer, Eva Barnes, Charlie Oates, Linda Vickerman, Jamie Newcomb, Kim Rubenstein and Christopher Ashley.
BFA Acting – Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Studied Under: Kevin Kittle, Barbara Marchant, Karen Chamberlain, Lenard Petit, Chantal Jean-Pierre and Israel Hicks.
Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe, London. (study abroad)
Studied Under: Master Stewart Pearce, Master Glynn MacDonald, Master Laurie Booth, Rob Clare, Mike Alfreds & Mark Rylance.
On Camera –
Kim Krakauer, Maria Hubbard, Kim Miscia, Doug Kesten, Trey Lawson, Shari Shaw, Charlie Otte & Don MacKay.

Comedy –
IMPROV: UCB East – Johnna Scrabis. CLOWNING: Chris Bayes & Orlando Pabotoy. LOS ANGELES: The Pack Theater – Miles Stroth

Classical Work –
Heidi Griffiths, Miriam Silverman & Heidi Ambruster.

Special Skills

DIALECTS: New York (Urban), Southern, British, Jamaican, AFRICAN: Somali, Nigerian, Kenyan, South African, D.R.of Congo, Rwandan, etc. (Teach these and most African dialects)
NATIVE SPEAKER: Kiswahili and Gikuyu.
SPORTS: Proficient in Track (Athletics), Basketball, Rugby, Soccer, Swimming & Surfing.
ALSO: Stage Combat: Broadsword, rapier/dagger & bare-knuckle. Yoga: Vinyasa & Ashtanga. Ukulele: Intermediate player.

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