Gregory Kevin Krosnes (September 19, 1967 – July 3, 2018) was an American stage actor, educator, and director. A transplant to

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, Krosnes was a prominent member of the Memphis theatre community.

Early life

Born to a military family, Krosnes lived in several locations in the United States and Germany. Krosnes settled in Memphis for a while, where he attended

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High School. Krosnes then earned his BA in theatre and media arts from

Rhodes College Rhodes College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee. Historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), it is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Sout ...

and later his MFA in acting from the

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Career

Krosnes made his collegiate theatre debut during his first year at Rhodes College when he acted in the college's production of

The Rivals ''The Rivals'' is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated frequently, including a 1935 musical and a 1958 episode of the T ...

. At Rhodes, Krosnes was also a member of the Rhodes Singers. Krosnes returned to Memphis after earning his master's degree. There, he taught at his alma mater Rhodes College and later at Arlington High School. In 2011, Freed-Hardeman University (Tennessee) awarded Krosnes a post-graduate degree of Master of Education (MED). Krosnes had a penchant for physical comedy and musical theatre and received an Ostrander award for Best Actor in All My Sons.

Credits

Stage acting

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'' *'' All My Sons'' as Chris Keller *'' The Robber Bridegroom'' as Jamie Lockheart *'' Big River'' as

Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: '' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), '' Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and '' Tom Sawyer, ...

*'' Little Shop of Horrors'' as Mushnik *''

The Addams Family ''The Addams Family'' is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in ''The New Yorker'' over ...

'' as Mal Beineke *'' Mamma Mia!'' as Bill Austin *'' On the Razzle'' *'' A Perfect Ganesh'' as The Man *'' Twilight of the Gods'' (2012) as

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

Voice acting

*'' The Fisherman and His Soul'' as Ensemble *''

Spoon River Anthology ''Spoon River Anthology'' (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters' ...

'' as Albert Schirding *''

The Dead Girl ''The Dead Girl'' is a 2006 American drama thriller film written and directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Brittany Murphy, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was nominated for several 2007 Independent Spirit Awards incl ...

'' (2007) as Joe Sykes *''

Roman à Clef ''Roman à clef'' (, anglicised as ), French for ''novel with a key'', is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship be ...

'' (2007) as Gary *''

Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls aslee ...

'' (2008) as Rip Van Winkle *'' The Shepherd of the Clouds'' (2010) as Giles

Directing

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The Queen Bee "The Queen Bee" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 62). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 554 ("The Grateful Animals"). Synopsis Two sons of a king went out to seek their fortunes, but fell into disorde ...

'' (2008) with Chatterbox Audio Theater

References

1967 births 2018 deaths American theatre directors Male actors from Memphis, Tennessee {{US-theat-actor-1960s-stub