Joel Thingvall

A DRAMATIC HUMORIST: CLASSY-ICAL ACTING FOR STAGE & SCREEN -- currently working voice-overs, industrial, short films, on-camera, and commercial and television projects, as well as the occasional stage production

Affiliations

Moore Creative Talent
Talent Poole
Agency Models and Talent

Awards

Member of Playwrights Lab. Playwriting grants from Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, Dayton-Hudson Production Grant, winner of Jacksonville University One-Act Playwriting Competition.

Contact information

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Primary telephone: (651) 644-9903
Web site: www.JoelThingvall.com

Experience

Merlin Magic Shows
Burger King Corporation

Saturday Science Clubhouse
Iggy the Iguana
Science Museum of Minnesota

Storytalers
Minneapolis Public Schools/Parks

GorillaGrams
Eastern Onion

Duck Soup Players
Playwright, Performer, Manager
Marine-on-St.Croix

Reader’s Theater
St. Cloud School System

The Sad Clown
Street Mime in Parks

MINNESOTA FRINGE

Scenes on a Park Bench (2011) Jobless Man
Writer/Director Garrett Rademacher
Mercury Ninety Productions
Nightmare Man (2011) Project Development
Dir. Paul von Stoetzel
Writer/Composer Nathan Schilz
Studio Alethea

DINNER THEATRE/SUMMER STOCK

Ole and Lena's Christmas (Ole)
Funside Dinner Theatre
Stillwater, Minnesota

The Fantasticks (Mortimer)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Broderick)
A Flea In Her Ear (Camille)
Teddy Bear Players
Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Once Upon A Mattress (King Sextimus)
A Funny Thing Happened On Way To Forum (Erronius)
The Fantasticks (Mortimer)
Carrousel Inn Dinner Theatre
Columbus, Ohio

Arsenic and Old Lace (Rev. Harper)
Odd Couple (Vinnie)
Rainmaker (File)
You Can't Take It With You (Ed)
Theatre L'Homme Dieu
Alexandria, Minnesota

Man of LaMancha (Paco)
Thurber Carnival (Player)
Roar of Greasepaint Smell of Crowd (Bully)
Genesis Theatre
Reading, Pennsylvania

OUTDOOR SHAKESPEARE

Tartuffe (Tartuffe)
Julius Caesar (Cinna)
Volpone (Voltaire)
The Tempest (Gonzolo)
Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Simple)
Shakespeare and Company
White Bear lake, Minnesota

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo)
Taming of the Shrew (Tranio)
Twelfth Night (Fabian)
Shakespeare in the Streets
Minneapolis, Minnesota

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Philostrate)
Upright Egg Theatre Company
St. Paul, Minnesota

MINNESOTA THEATRE

Ice Glen (Grayson)
The Fantasticks (Bellomy)
Genghis Kahn (Aide-de-Camp)
Theatre in the Round
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fox on the Fairway (The Starter)
Old Log Theatre
Excelsior, Minnesota

As You Like It (William)
You Can’t Take It With You (Tony Kirby)
Little Moon of Alban (Father Curran)
Pinocchio (The Sly Fox)
Drunkard (Farmer Jones)
Diary of Anne Frank (Mr. Frank)
Dark of the Moon (John Witch Boy)
Paint Your Wagon (Sam)
Camelot (Merlin)
Lakeshore Playhouse
White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Othello (Clown)
Fantasticks (Mortimer)
Lamp At Midnight (Gepe)
Theatre of Involvement
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Promises Promises (Kirklebee)
Beggar on Horseback (Homer Cady)
Dark of the Moon (Preacher Haggler)
Theatre 1900
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Searching for the Soul of Science
(Will the Bartender)
Brazen Theatre
Mineapolis, Minnesota

Arsenic and Old Lace (1975)
(Dead Body/Atmosphere)
Guthrie Theatre
Minneapolis, Minnesota

FILMSCRIPTS STAGED READINGS

Bill-Land (2011) General Waring/various
David Erickson, writer Bill Cooper Project
Devil's Gardener (2010) General Gaites
Chris Becker, writer Bill Cooper Project

PLAY BY PLAY BOOKS READINGS

Food For Thought (2011) Directions
Rich Rubin, writer PlaysWithFood
Shelf Life (2011) Sal
Mic Weinblatt, writer PlaysWithFood
Eat the Rich (2011) Jamie
Luke Weber, writer PlaysWithFood
True Scent (2011) Butler
Greg Abbott, writer PlaysWith Food

GONZO THEATRE STAGED READINGS

The Most Incredible Thing:
The Life of Hans Christian Andersen
Laura C.J. Owen, writer
(Old Hans Christian Anderson)
The Gonzo Group Theatre
Saint Paul, Minnesota

OTHER THEATRE
The Prince and the Pauper (Miles Hendon)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (George)
Blue Monster (Taer)
Summer and Smoke (Archie Kramer)
Personal Appearance (Broderick)
Stanley (Mr. Laurel’s Shadow)
A Christmas Carol (Bob Cratchit)
The Miracle Worker (James)
J.B. (Jonanthan)
Dracula (Jonathan Harker)
Oh Dad Poor Dad Mama’s Hung You In The Closet...Feeling So Sad (Bellboy)

EXPERIMENTAL/GROUP THEATRE
Group 239
Braille
We’re Only In It For The Money
Reflections
The Green Cuckatoo
An Enemy of the People
Everyman
The Lottery
The Great White Hope
Sweet Eros/Whiskey
Shakespeare Games

Photos

Video

Education

University of Minnesota BES Degree - course concentration Theatre Arts and Journalism plus Graduate courses in Theatre Arts. Studied Speech/Communication at St. Cloud State University. Also, Religious Theatre at Viterbo College.

Training

MASTER CLASSES in MASK: Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. PLAYWRITING: Charles Nolte. ACTING: Louis Dezseran, Warren Frost. MIME: Mamako, Tony Hodek, Ladislav Fialka, Samuel Avital, Reid Gilbert, Jacques LeCoq. DANCE: Robert Moulton, Loyce Houlton, Charles Weidman, William Burdick. VIP EXTRA TRAINING: Walden Entertainment. ON-CAMERA AUDITION TECHNIQUES: Bill Cooper. MEISNER/LEWIS ACTING WORKSHOP: Sandra K. Horner. VOICE: Beth Chaplin. THEATRE MENTOR: Dr. Louis H. Campbell.

Extensive experience in theatrical and film criticism. Opinion writer for major metro dailies. Accomplished editor. Extensive background in Theatre Business Management and Entertainment Public Relations and Promotion.

Goals

Available as a Big Presence character for your film, television or stage project. Always open and willing to work with student programs.

Physical profile

73" tall
Plays ages:   40s   50s   60s  
Large build
Caucasian

Onstage skills

Actor

Singer

Accents

Minnesotan

Acting skills

Shakespearean Text Analysis and Training
Working with Children
Film and Television
Writer
Clowning

Acting styles

Perform as needed

Instruments

cowbell

Music styles

Willing to Try Anything!

Administrative skills

Management / Admin
Managing Director

Crew jobs

Mask

Production

Producer

Writing skills

Collaborative
Criticism
Essay
Rewrite

Writing influences

Theatrical Journalism

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