“Philip was one of my first colleagues in L.A., and collaborations with him became a seminal part of my life here. There’s such an intensity around him, a glorious self-consciousness. He lives to perform, but his is a total creative sensibility--conceptualizing the whole stage. His impact on a piece is enormous, no matter how he’s enlisted.”
David Schweizer, Obie-winning theatre and opera director
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ACTOR/CO-CREATOR - GAWDAFFUL NATIONAL THEATER CO/ YALE UNION, PORTLAND OR SEP-OCT 2019
World premiere of Asher Hartman’s “The Dope Elf” first 3 plays of a 6 play cycle
ACTOR/CO-CREATOR - GAWDAFFUL NATIONAL THEATER CO/MACHINE PROJECT-LOS ANGELES-2017
World premiere of Asher Hartman’s “Sorry Atlantis: Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge”.
ACTOR/CO-CREATOR - GAWDAFFUL NATIONAL THEATER CO/LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM-LOS ANGELES — 2016
World premiere of Asher Hartman’s “The Silver, The Black, The Wicked Dance”.
ACTOR/CO-CREATOR - GAWDAFFUL NATIONAL THEATER CO/MACHINE PROJECT-LOS ANGELES- — 2014-2015
World premiere of Asher Hartman’s “Purple Electric Play”.
PERFORMER-- NEW YORK CITY OPERA- 2013
Old Prisoner/Mute Bartender for director Christopher Alden in Offenbach’s “La Périchole”.
WRITER-PERFORMER-DIRECTOR - BOOTLEG THEATER- 2012
Double bill of “Billy The Kid And What He Did” and “Broad Daylight”.
WRITER-PERFORMER - HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE, SANTA MONICA CA — 2012
“I Asked My Body What It Remembered: A Disco Memoir”.Description text goes here
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PERFORMER - LONG BEACH OPERA — 2005
Herr Peachum in the Brecht-Weill “The Threepenny Opera” directed by Christopher Alden.
TRANSLATOR/PERFORMER - EOS ORCHESTRA NYC — 2001
Translated and performed all the parts (narration in English, dialogues in original French) in Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire d’un Soldat” under the direction of Christopher Alden.
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PERFORMER, PRODUCER - 1996
The Wandering Whore, a musical about the criminal sexual underworld of the 18th century, with music by Eliot Douglass.Opened Sept. 13, 1996 for a four week run at the American Center for Musical Theatre in Hollywood, having been previewed with a grant from the Audrey Skirball Kenis Foundation at their Common Ground Festival at UCLA, June 1997... Pick of the Week, LA Weekly 9/27-10/3/96. Critic’s Choice, Drama-Logue, 9/26-10/2/96. Opens June 13, 1997 at Playwrights’ Arena. Re-opened June 13, 1997, at the Playwright’s Arena.
WRITER/PERFORMER?DIRECTOR - 1994
No Miracle: a consolation, a musical about the AIDS crisis, with music by Eliot Douglass and Eric Cunningham
November, 1994, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica. Portions subsequently played on KCRW FM, Los Angeles.
Previously performed (in a shorter version) at several Los Angeles area locations from 1990.
DIRECTOR -1994
The Way of the World by William Congreve. January, 1994, Powerhouse Theatre, Venice, CA.
TRANSLATOR/ACTOR - 1994
Educated Women and The Improvisation at Versailles, from Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes and L’Impromptu de Versailles, commissioned by the Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga, CA.
Summer 1994. Also played Trissotin in Educated Women under the direction of Ellen Geer.
DIRECTOR - 1994
The Scarlet Letter, a new opera based on the original Nathanael Hawthorne novel,with libretto by Tom Curley and music by Martin Herman.
October, 1994, Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Cal State Long Beach.
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PERFORMER -1993
The Night Market, a musical with music by Eliot Douglass June, 1993, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica.
PERFORMER - 1993
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Storyteller/Singer) by Bertolt Brecht at the Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga, CA under the direction of Ellen Geer.
SINGER/SONGWRITER - 1993 - 1998
Cabaret act with original songs by Littell and Douglass, occasional music by Eric Cunningham, and the odd out of the way old standard.
Various venues around the Los Angeles area.
DIRECTOR/PERFORMER - 1992
Queen of Angels by James Carroll Pickett. November, 1992, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA. Subsequently ran at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles.
WRITER/PERFORMER—1990s - now
Poetry in Motion, readings by Los Angeles poets at various venues, curated by Eve Brandstein and Michael Lally.
No Miracle: a consolation (see 1994) was performed at various venues, including the APLA Creative Writing Workshop, the Celebration Theatre, the Pacific Design Center and Beyond Baroque, in a shorter version.
Kiss the Glass, a cabaret musical with music by Eric Cunningham.
May/June, 1991, Theater Theatre, Hollywood. Previously performed at the Cafe Largo (1988-1989), Los Angeles.
PERFORMER - 1990
The Joni Mitchell Project, a theatrical staging of the songwriter’s work, devised by Henry Edwards and David Schweizer. Los Angeles Theatre Center.
SINGER, SONGWRITER - 1990s
Philip Littell and What is Said, a pop/rock band performing original material by Littell and Eric Cunningham, among other musicians. Various Los Angeles venues, including Cafe Largo, Lhasa Club, Alcohol Salad, Be-Bop Records, Highways, the Gardenia Club, Cassis Cabaret, At My Place, The Theatricum Botanicum, the Pikme-up, Olio, Theatre Theater, The Breakaway and Pink.
The band was originally conceived in 1987 and played in many of the same venues as Philip Littell and the Society Boys.Description text goes here
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TRANSLATOR/ADAPTER- 1989
The Guilty Mother by Beaumarchais. Long Beach Opera.
PERFORMER - 1988
L’Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky (the Devil). Louisville Opera, directed by Christopher Alden.
PERFORMER (voice of title character) - 1988
Kingfish, directed by David Schweizer.
Los Angeles Theatre Center. Drama-Logue award for performance.
CO-CREATOR, PERFORMER - 1988
The Ballad of the Sleeping Heart, a musical in collaboration with David Schweizer. Padua Hills Play Festival.
PERFORMER -1987
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme/Ariadne auf Naxos (Dancemaster) Long Beach Opera, directed by Christopher Alden.
WRITER, DIRECTOR,PERFORMER- 1986
Karma Loca, under Ruth Malachek, with a Re-Cher-Chez grant.
WRITER, DIRECTOR,PERFORMER - 1985
The Return of Aquapussy with John Fleck, and A Boy and His Girls with the O Sisters. Theoreticals, Los Angeles.
CO-CREATOR, PERFORMER - 1985
Plato’s Symposium, a staged adaptation devised with David Schweizer and Jerry Frankel.
Powerhouse Theater, Santa Monica, and Zephyr Theatre, Los Angeles. LA Weekly award (best production).
1980-1984 – CO-CREATOR/PERFORMER
The Weba Show with Weba Garretson and Jerry Frankel, directed by David Schweizer.
Various Los Angeles and New York nightclubs and cabarets.
PERFORMER/COLLABORATOR
Jungle Gym, Magic Radio, Boys’ Life, with Donald Krieger. Court Theatre, the House and the CAST Theatre, Los Angeles
TEACHER/CREATED PROGRAM
Theatre games program at Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, CA, reaching 2500 children in two years.
PERFORMER
Cabaret (Emcee), in a production by John Allison at the Scott Hardy Dinner Theatre, Glendale.
CREATOR/PERFORMER
The Society of Wings, readings by Littell, Henry Murray and Whitney Vale at the Deja Vu, L.A.
DIRECTOR
The Madness of Lady Bright, Brontosaurus, Our American Cousin (also adapted as “dream play”) with Neal Flanagan at the Deja Vu, Los Angeles.
CO-WRITER/PERFORMER - 1978
Black Tie, an AFI film. Director Phil Restaino.
PERFORMER - 1977
Kid Twist by Len Jenkins (Pittsburgh Phil), at the Mark Taper Forum Lab, Los Angeles, directed by David Schweizer
PERFORMER - 1976 - ONGOING
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Dr. Caius), The Glass Menagerie (Gentleman Caller), Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), The Three Sisters (Kulygin), The Seagull (Treplev), The Oresteia, Cymbeline (Iachimo), The Taming of the Shrew (Hortensio), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) and other plays directed by Ellen Geer at the Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga, CA. Also initiated Young People’s Summer Theatre Workshop and subsequently taught in Classics Workshop.
PERFORMER - 1976
Skyjack 1976--Entebbe, directed by Danny Goldman, La Mama, Hollywood. Los Angeles Theatre Critics Award for Best Production.
PERFORMER - 1975-76.
Repertory Theater, Stage West, Springfield, MA (Ah, Wilderness!, The Tempest, Design for Living, The Balcony)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - 1975
Yentl on Broadway, production by the Chelsea Theater, directed by Robert Kalfin (1975).
ASSISTANT PRODUCER - 1974
Andy Warhol’s Man in the Moon on Broadway at the Little Theater.
DANCER 1974
The Zou Revue at The Blue Angel Nightclub. Directed by Peter Jackson, choreographed by Rita Charisse.
DANCER 1973
Emory Herman Company, Cubiculo, New York.
TEACHER - 1973
American Academy of Dramatic Arts Night School.
1971-72
Studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. Received Lawrence Langer Speech Award. Subsequently studied with Rae Allen, Sheldon Patinkin, Robert Stephens and Riczard Cieslak.
1969-1971
Served in the US Army. Honorable Discharge. Letter of Commendation for “raising the artistic standards of the Atlanta military community.” (! )
