Resume

Acting Resume

Ernest Abuba

Unions: AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC 

Height: 5’ 5”
Weight: 145 Lbs.

Awards

OBIE Best Actor Award 1983, as Kadota in Yellow Fever
Best Actor Focus Press Award 1971, Buffalo Studio Arena
Best Supporting Actor (Nomination) 1967, Old Globe, CA

Film

GHOSTLIGHT | Isamu Noguchi | Dir. Chris Herrman/ Mannic Prodns., Inc.
12 MONKEYS, Principal | Engineer | Dir. Terry Gilliam/Universal Pictures
KING OF NEW YORK | King Tito | Dir. Abel Ferrara/Reteitalia Scena Int’l
ARTICLE 99 | Tenabe | Dir. Howie, Duech/Orion Films
APOSTASY | Abdiel | Dir. Andrew, Bellware/Braidwood Films
HAMLET | Claudius | Dir. Andrew, Bellware/Braidwood Films
INTIMATE STRANGERS | Bin Phan | CBS-TV Movie of the Week
VESTIGE OF HONOR | Thai Official | CBS-TV Movie of the Week
CALL ME | Boss | Dir. Solace Mitchell
FOREVER LULU | Drug Addict | Dir. Amos Kollek

Television

NEW YORK UNDERCOVER | Fung | Guest Star/3 Episodes
NEW YORK NEWS | Dr. Yamaguchi | Guest Star
KUNG FU THE LEGEND CONTINUES | Principal –Tan| Pilot/Warner Brothers
THE BILL COSBY SHOW | George Parker | Guest Star
COUNTERSTRIKE | Chiang| Guest Star/USA Network
ADDERLY | Doc Thuie | Guest Star/CBS
LOVING| Mr. Okimitsu | 8 Episodes
(Daytime T.V. include: All My Children, Edge Of Night, Search For Tomorrow, As The World Turns, Loving)

Broadway

PACIFIC OVERTURES | CMDR. Adams | Dir. Hal Prince / Winter Garden Theatre
KING & I | Kralahome | U/S King National Tour
SHIMADA | Hashimoto | Broadhurst Theatre
ZOYA’S APARTMENT | Cherubim | Circle in the Square
LOOSE ENDS | Balinese Fisherman | Circle in the Square

Off Broadway

The Oldest Boy | by Sara Ruhl | The Oldest Boy Lincoln Center Stage, NY.
TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON | Sakini | Pan Asian Rep.
PROMETHEUS | Prometheus | Dir. Robert W. Wilson - Guggenheim Theatre
LEIR REX | King Leir | LA MaMa E.T.C.
LONG DAY’S JOURNERY INTO NIGHT | James Tyrone | National Asian American Theatre Co.
CHANG FRAGMENTS | Mr. Chang | NYSF/Joseph Papp Public Theatre
PACIFIC OVERTURES REVIVAL | Reciter/Lead | Promenade Theatre
SHOGUN MACBETH | Macbeth | Pan Asian Rep
YELLOW FEVER | Kadota | Pan Asian Rep
THREE SISTERS | Chebutykin | Pan Asian Rep
MISHIMA | Mishima | LA MaMa E.T.C.
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE | The Singer | LA MaMa E.T.C. Annex/East Berliner Ensemble

Regional

CAMBODIAN ODESSY | Pen Tip | Merrimack Rep., MA
PENDRAGON | King Arthur | George Street Playhouse, NJ
SHOGUN MACBETH | Macbeth | Dallas Shakespeare Fest., TX
A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM | Oberon/Theseus | New Stage, MISS.
WINTER’S TALE | Autolycus | Huntington, MA
CYRANO DE BERGERAC | Poet, U/S Cyrano | Santa Fe Festival
A CLASS C TRIAL | Abe | Missouri Rep.
FAILURE TO ZIGZAG | CMDR Hashimoto | Indiana Rep
F.O.B. | Steve | Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center
WU CHANG | Wu Chang | Buffalo Studio Arena
EH? | Aly | Old Globe, CA

Training

Actor’s Stage Studio, DC
Actor's Studio, NY
Pan Asian Repertory, NY
Voice: Carmine Gagliardi (Opera/Broadway Belt/Ballad/High Baritone)

Special Skills

Stage Combat - Rapier, Dagger, Fencing (B.H. Barry); Fire Arms; Martial Arts - Kendo, Javelin, Shaolin Boxing, Chinese
Double Sword; Asian Movement – Kabuki, Noh, Beijing Opera, Butoh; Dialects – Filipino, Thai, Chinese, Japanese,
Vietnamese, Spanish, East Indian, Tibetan. *Voice of Dalai Lama on Audio-Book: THE ART OF HAPPINESS
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