Self Love

Montgomery Sutton (he/him) is a director, playwright, and actor. His films include Between the Lines (Best Screenplay, Sparrow Film Festival; nominee, Best Director, Sparrow Film Festival), Delivery Failed (finalist, Best Director, Madonie Film Festival), Self-Love, and Death Takes a Leak. He has directed theater across the United Sates, including A Midsummer Night's Dream (NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Atlantic Acting School); Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Changeling, Secret Shakespeare Hunt (Rude Grooms); Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Junior Players); Othello, Ruins, Antigone, Oedipus (Gilbert Theater), The Soothsayer (Take Ten Festival - nominee, Best Director), and ShakesBEERiences of The Tempest and his adaptation The Shrew (Seven Stages Shakespeare Company). As a writer, his plays include Advent (semi-finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Ruins, Broken Water, a modern multimedia adaptation of Antigone for Richland College, and original verse adaptations of Antigone and Oedipus for the Gilbert Theater. He is founding member of Rude Grooms, a Queens-based theater company that creates epicly intimate theatrical experiences rooted in the actor-audience relationship exemplified by Shakespeare’s acting company. Work as an actor includes Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New York Classical Theatre), One Man, Two Guvnors (Florida Studio Theater), Oswald (Casa Manana), Shakespeare in Love, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest (Shakespeare Dallas), Henry V (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), Measure for Measure, Richard III, Love’s Labours Lost, King Lear (Trinity Shakespeare Festival), Pericles, The Winter’s Tale (Seven Stages Shakespeare Company), Booth, Gruesome Playground Injuries (Second Thought Theatre), Tomorrow Come Today (Undermain Theatre), The Temperamentals (Uptown Players), On the Eve (Theater Three). Work acting in film and new media include the 1865 podcast, Skindiving, and Trouble with Women. He has taught for the Shakespeare Theater Association, World Shakespeare Congress, Atlantic Acting School, Shakespeare Dallas, the Gilbert Theatre, Junior Players, Dallas Children’s Theater, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, New York Shakespeare Company, and Rude Grooms. He received his BFA from NYU / Atlantic Acting School and trained as a member of the International Actors Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe. montgomerysutton.com