Todd Conner's twenty-five year career as an entertainer has covered just about all aspects of the craft. He has performed on stages across the country stretching from the Hasty Pudding in Boston, MA all the way to San Diego, CA. He studied acting in New York City with Academy Award winner Sandy Dennis, Stephen Strimpell, and at the American Musical & Dramatic Academy. He studied stage directing at the Directors Company under the tutelage of such theatre luminaries as Stephen Porter, Brian Murray, and Nagle Jackson. His first full-length play, The Grendelmas, received the Hendrix-Murphy Playwriting Award and was subsequently produced at Hendrix College under his direction. His adaptation and direction of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the Dallas Theater Center set box office records there and was the most successful production in the 25 year history of the DTC's Teen/Children Theater. In Los Angeles he received an LA Weekly award for his acting work in Rick Sparks' production of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? In 2001, he became the head of the Drama Department at Crespi Carmelite Preparatory in Encino, California, where he remained for three years. At Crespi, he adapted and directed ambitious new production concepts of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.
For a brief time, Mr. Conner worked at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. It was there that he fell in love with the work of the Roman poet, Publius Ovidius Naso--or simply, Ovid. It was from a series of impromptu lunchtime performances he put on for the Getty staff that his Metamorphoses began. Mr. Conner later became a gallery teacher at the museum, often interpreting classic texts in the galleries in order to illuminate the content of the paintings, sculpture, and antiquities.
Mr. Conner has been a journeyman in the medium of film as well. He starred in Streghe along with the late, great Scottish actor, Ian Bannen. In Love and a .45, he had the pleasure to work with a still-as-yet unknown actress named Renee Zellweger. The short film One, Two, Three..., which he starred in and wrote with director/producer Miguel Rueda, received a finalist mention in Showtime's Latino Short Film Showcase and was an official selection in the 2003 Hollywood Film Festival. He lives in New York City.
