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Joe Spano, an Emmy winner, starred for seven years as Lt. Henry Goldblume on the acclaimed television drama Hill Street Blues. He also starred in the series Mercy Point, Amazing Grace, Murder One and NYPD Blue. He has starred in 20 films made for television and guest-starred on 37 television shows, most recently Stand Off, Crossing Jordan and The Closer. For three years he has played F.B.I. Agent Tobias Fornell on Navy: NCIS.
He has appeared in 28 feature films, including Hart's War, Texas Rangers, Primal Fear, Apollo 13, American Graffiti, Hollywoodland with Adrian Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane and Bob Hoskins and, most recently, Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling.
A native of San Francisco, a graduate of the University of California and a classically-trained stage actor with experience in improvisational comedy, Spano made his Broadway debut in 1992 in the Roundabout Theater revival of Arthur Miller's The Price, with Eli Wallach, which was nominated for a Tony® for Best Revival. West Coast stage credits include Eduardo Pavlovsky's Potestad and David Mamet's Speed the Plow and American Buffalo, for which he was awarded an LA Drama Critics Circle Award. At Rubicon Theater Company in Ventura he has played General Burgoyne in Shaw's Devil's Disciple, Greg in A. R. Gurney's Sylvia and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. He is a member of Pacific Stages, the Antaeus Theater Company and a founding member of three other theater companies, including Berkeley Repertory Theater.
He is a past director and current e-mail coordinator of the Southern California chapter of Families with Children from China and a founding, past board member of the Half the Sky Foundation, which brings early childhood development training and infant nurturing programs to orphanages in China. He and Joan Zerrien are the parents of 12 year old Liana Clare Xiaohe Spano and 8 year old Meili Qing Spano.
D.W. Jacobs is a playwright, director, actor, teacher and producer. Before turning to theatre, he studied science, mathematics and international relations in high school, and political geography at U.C. Santa Barbara. He brings a multi-disciplinary approach to his work and teaching. He started directing because he wanted to see Frank Wedekind's plays staged. He began writing scripts at Cal Arts in classes taught by Alexander Mackendrick, the respected British film director.
He co-founded San Diego Repertory Theatre in 1976 with Sam Woodhouse, where he worked as Artistic Director for 20 years. He resigned in 1997 to give more focus to his own creative projects. Jacobs is now working on stage and film adaptations of various literary works, and he is developing original scripts for theatre, film and digital video. In 2001, he received a commission from Z Space Studio to write a stage adaptation of Edward Bellamy's 19th century utopian novel Looking Backward. In 2002, he wrote and directed "Remember Me," a video short, co-produced with Kovarova. As an actor, he has played Joe in The Time of Your Life, Claudius in Hamlet and Howard in Mac Wellman's A Murder of Crows. With Scott Feldsher, he co-wrote and co-directed The Whole World is Watching, an adaptation of the Oedipus trilogy as TV talk show. Directing credits include Mac Wellman's Albanian Softshoe (with Michael Roth), Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, Ric Najera's A Quiet Love, Arial Dorfman's Death and the Maiden (in English and Spanish), Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear and Titus Andronicus, as well as his own adaptation of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 2005, his adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol had its 30th annual production at San Diego Repertory Theatre.
In 2005, Jacobs directed Brighde Mullins' Water Stories from the Mojave Desert for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and began teaching an annual playwriting workshop at the Playwrights Foundation. With improvisational artist Nina Wise and chaos mathematician Ralph Abraham, he worked on a Kepler/Galileo project as participants in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Spring 2000. His 1986 production of Romulus Linney's Holy Ghosts was invited to play in New York City as part of the 1987 American Theatre Exchange. He has won over 15 awards from Dramalogue and San Diego Critics Circle for his work as a director and actor. Mr. Jacobs is the founder of the Actor's Gym in San Diego - an eclectic approach to actor training that utilizes movement, poetry, and improvisation. In January 2007, he participated in a writing retreat at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, working on Better Than Sinatra SINATRA with co-writer Gary Kelson and arranger Steve Gunderson. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, the Dramatists' Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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