Stephen Kunken, Actor

Primary Stages:

Rx, 2012
 

Career Highlights:

Our Town, 2010
   The Barrow Street Theatre
Enron, 2010 (Tony Nomination)
   Broadhurst Theatre
Frost/Nixon, 2007 (Drama League Nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award)
   Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Rock 'n' Roll, 2007
   Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Festen, 2006
   Music Box Theatre

Q&A:

Nickname: Skunk.

Pre-Show Ritual: It depends on the show. Usually it involves a warm up physically and vocally, followed by the oxymoronic hydration cocktail of coffee and a bottle of water with EmergenC in it.

Book you are reading: The Steve Jobs biography by Walter Issacs, and Soccernomics by Simon Kuper.

Highlight of the year: Either London with my wife and 2 1/2 year old daughter, or being directed by my wife in Noises Off up at the Dorset Theater Festival.

Your perfect day: Walking around Hampstead Heath or Kensington Gardens with my family.

Favorite theater Urban Legend: Either the much-storied Pia Zadora production of Anne Frank when the beleaguered audience yells out to the Nazis, "THEY'RE IN THE ATTIC!" or, "I don't remember eating corn."

Title of Autobiography: A Skunk's Tale.

Favorite place in NYC: The Flatiron District. Or B&H Photo.

If you could meet anyone dead or alive, who would it be and why?: I'd like to meet photojournalist Robert Capa. He was kind of like Hemingway, Cartier Bresson, and George Clooney wrapped in one very cool package. Or maybe Steve Jobs.

Hidden talent: Sound design/photography.

Last show you saw and LOVED: Michael Sheen's Hamlet at the Young Vic. Fascinating take on the play, and Michael was amazing.

A guilty pleasure: Anything gummy, jelly, and tooth-rotting. And "Dancing With the Stars."