J. Center as Barda

J. Center as Barda

J. Center has made Philadelphia his acting home for just over a year.  In
that time he has appeared in a number of films, including film appearances
in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, Law Abiding Citizen, Limitless,
and The Bounty Hunter.  He was featured as Death in the Art Party Production of
Jacob and Death, which won Audience Favorite at the 2010 Media Film
Festival.  In local independent films, J. played a featured role in Severine
Pictures’ La méduse rouge, played Donald/Huggy in the full-length feature
Theodore Is Dying, and most recently played a supporting role in Changing
the Game.  Onstage he was featured in multiple roles in Quintessence
Theatre’s Venetian Repertory, played Nagg in EgoPo Classic Theatre’s recent
production of Endgame, and was featured in Krapp’s Last Tape, playing the
title role.  A full-time actor for twenty-five years in regional theatre,
he’s played such roles as Jaques in As You Like It, the Narrator in The
Rocky Horror Show, George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sir Andrew
Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Robert in Betrayal, the Historical Event in How
I Got That Story, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and Charles Marlow in a
long-running stage adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.