Derek Cecil is a founding member of the Rude
Mechanicals. He acted in RMTCıs inaugural production, Plug by
Dennis Trainor Jr., then directed its acclaimed production of
Vaclav Havelıs Largo Desolato later that year. He also appeared
in the RMTC production of Samuel Beckettıs Company, adapted
by Lane Savadove, and directed a reading of The Day Room by
Don DeLillo as part of the Actors Directing Actors series. Regional
credits include: How I Fell in Love (Williamstown Theater Festival);
Aloha Say the Pretty Girls, Drive Angry, 40 Minute Finish and
Slop Culture (Humana Festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville);
The Memorandum (Hennepin Center for the Arts, produced by the
Guthrie Theater); A Christmas Carol, Cyrano de Bergerac (Alley
Theatre); The Real Thing (Marin Theater Company) Seneca's Oedipus,
Equus, Joseph K and Macbeth (Urban Theater); King Lear (also
assistant directed Ad Hoc Theater Company, which he helped
build); Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Pericles, Hamlet and
Love's Labor's Lost (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Loose Ends
(purple man theater co.); The Lorca Play, Crimes of the Heart,
Twelfth Night (University of Houston, Wortham Theater). FILM:
"Under Seige 2: Dark Territory", "Men in Black II", "Little
Pieces", "Picture This", "Pop Love" TV: Jim Prufrock on ABC's
³Push, Nevada²; Tom Bellow on ³Pasadena² for FOX; ³The Back
Page² (ABC Pilot); Officer Mike Dorrigan on UPNıs ³The Beat²;
³Law And Order: SVU²; ³The Unspoken Truth,² a movie of the week
for NBC, bad guy of the week on "Nash Bridges" for CBS. Derek
is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theaterıs Advanced
Training Program. A.C.T. Studio Productions Include: Iphigenia,
1918, Baal, Man and Superman, Mary Stuart and Klaun und Uberklaun.
