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Contact: uziny@uziny.com
Uzi Parnes has been part of New York's performance and art scene for over 25 years. He has collaborated with Carmelita Tropicana Co-Writing and Directing four plays including Memories of the Revolution, Carnaval, and The Conquest of Mexico as Seen Through the Eyes of Hernando Cortez's Horse produced at PS122, DTW and WOW Cafe. He also directed and performed in Tropicana's Chicas 2000 and Clamcracker Suite.
Uzi has also written and directed numerous short films and videos shown extensively in international film festivals, Anthology Film Archives, MOMA and PBS. He also has an extensive body of work as a photographer and spent many years working with Jack Smith and shooting countless photos of Jack from 1982-1989.
He was the founder and co-director with Ela Troyano of the 1980's performance club Chandalier. Worked as Line-Producer on Rosa Von Praunheim's 1995 ground- breaking documentary Transexual Menace and as a videographer for Gay Cable Network.
From 2003 to 2005 Uzi ran the Uzi N.Y. Gallery, in the East Village, shocasing the work of local photographers and painters.
Uzi has also worked as an actor in film and television and has had small roles opposite Al Pacino and Michael Keaton. Downtown, he has created original roles in the theater of Ethyl Eichelberger, Holly Hughes, Michael Kirby, Kestutis Nakas, William Niederkorn as well as Jack Smith. He is featured in Mary Jordan's documentary on Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.
Uzi has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies & M.A. in Drama from New York University.
UZI PARNES
SAG/AFTRA
Contact: uziny@uziny.com
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height: 5'11”, 195lbs
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hair: salt & pepper
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eyes: green
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TELEVISION
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ED 041
LAW & ORDER S.V.U. 1412
PINERO
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
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Customer (Featured)
Joe Hayes (Guest Star)
Submissive (Featured)
Dancing Bike
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NBC
NBC
LIFETIME
ABC
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FILM
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Director
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GAME 6
PEOPLE I KNOW
MENDY
GARMENTO
SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS
LOISAIDA LUSTS
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Yehoshafat (opp. M. Keaton)
Berger (opp. Al Pacino)
Srulik
Voice of “Poncho” ad
Yom
The Director
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Michael Hoffman
Dan Algrant
Adam Vardy
Michele Maher
Sheila McLaughlin
E.Troyano/U.Parnes
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THEATER
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CORNER GRAND
SOR JUANA
ME ME ME
CHICAS 2000
CANDELLA
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Big George Shlemmer
The Prosecuter
Father/Mother
Dr. Igor
Louis the Wheezer
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New Dramatists
Dance Theater Workshop
Bottom Line
Performance Space 122
D.T.W. & on tour
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Uzi has also created original roles in the theater of Ethyl Eichelberger, Holly Hughes, Michael Kirby, Kestutis Nakas, Wm. Niederkorn, & Jack Smith.
He co-authored (with Carmelita Tropicana ) and directed a number of plays including: MEMORIES OF THE REVOLUTION, CANDELA , CARNAVAL,& THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HERNAN CORTES'S HORSE
COMMERCIALS
Currently: McDonald's “CHICKEN” Cartoon; V.O. of McNugget
Previous commercials Include: Moviefone, Newsweek Internatinal, NY Lottery
EDUCATION
Ph.D.Performance Studies, New York University; Tisch School of the Arts
M.A.Drama, New York University; Graduate School of Arts and Science
B.A. Theater, State University of New York at Stony Brook
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Taught writing and dramatic literature at New York University 1980-88
Production Designer: LATIN BOYS GO TO HELL, YOUR KUNST IS YOUR WAFFEN
Line Producer: TRANSEXUAL MENACE, a documentary about transgender rights
Mental Health Worker Brooklyn House of Detention 1975-76
Playwright/Director: I SHOT JACK SMITH/THE GLITTER OF TRASH, 2006
SKILLS
Bilingual HEBREW, Carpentry, Cooking, Disco and Interprative Dancing, Dramaturgy, European Accents, Performance Art, Photography, & Videography
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