Frank Collison
Frank Collison as “Prospero” in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles)
Frank spent his first summer at a tent theatre in Ohio where his father was acting and his mother was directing. Although he considered careers in medicine or archaeology, the bow was bent.
Growing up in Richmond, Virginia, Frank earned his first paycheck at Barksdale Theatre, the nation’s first dinner theatre. While living in a postal van, Frank earned a BA at SF State during the late 60’s. He performed street theatre in San Francisco then moved up to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he helped establish Pinecrest Theatre.
After earning an MFA at UC San Diego, Frank became a traveling player who once toured 39,000 miles performing as “Miss Havisham” in Great Expectations. During his peripatetic years he acted in Montana, Boston and Louisiana, at Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and Denver Center.
Finally settling in Los Angeles in the mid 80’s, Frank was a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre, now in it’s 40th year. He continued his theatre career at PRT, the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Rogue Machine and The Road.
Frank has supported his theatre career with his work in film, television and voice-over. On the street Frank gets “What have I seen you in?” or the dreaded “Didn’t you used to be an actor? ” Most notable work is as “Horace Bing” a series regular on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Village, Wild at Heart, and Twin Peaks.
For the past 18 summers Frank and his wife Laura Gardner have been featured artists at the Valdez Theatre Conference.
WHO HAS FRANK PLAYED IN SHAKESPEARE REPUBLIC?
Shakespeare Republic audiences will remember Frank from his beautiful work as “Prospero” from The Tempest in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles), a performance that saw him receive a nomination for Best Actor in a Web Series at the 2021 Unrestricted View Film Festival and be awarded, alongside the rest of our amazing cast, with Best Ensemble Cast (Drama)at the 2021 British Web Awards, Best Ensemble (International Narrative) at the 2021 New Zealand WebFest, Best Ensemble Performance at the 2022 London Web Fest in the UK and nominated for Best Ensemble Performance (Drama) at the 2022 International Academy of Web Television Awards in the USA.
Find out more about Frank here: IMDB Profile