Gary Houston (Richard) this past season played Gustave in the Tom Stoppard translation of Gérald Sibleyras' Heroes at Stormfield Theatre in Lansing, MI, and Richard Ehrlich in Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still at Fusion Theatre in Albuquerque. He accepted the Joseph Jefferson Award for Overall Technical Design for the Goodman Stage 2 production of Peter Handke's Kaspar, which he directed, and as a director and virtual producer brought for the first time to Chicago works by Handke, Samuel Beckett, Fernando Arrabal, Heathcote Williams, Tom Eyen, Joyce Carol Oates and David Hare, among others. He appeared in many productions by the famed Organic Theater, including Bleacher Bums, Campaign, Jonathan Wild, The Little Sister,The Special Prosecutor, The King Must Die, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Forever War, Gulliver's Last Travels, American Enterprise and E/R: Emergency Room. More recently he has been seen in Mauritius (Northlight), Berlin '45 (Victory Gardens), A Raisin in the Sun (Goodman), Nelson & Simone (as Nelson Algren, Live Bait), The Love Song of Saul Alinsky (as Alinsky, Terrapin), Unchanging Love (The Artistic Home), Uncle Vanya (TUTA), The Princess Turandot and The Tempest (European Repertory), 2 1/2 Jews (Apple Tree), Panic(Peninsula Players) and three at Lansing's BoarsHead--Voice of Good Hope, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Permanent Collection. He has appeared in many films, including The Blues Brothers, Fargo and Watchmen, and draws your attention to a short to be screened this November in the Chicago Comedy Film Festival titled Good Luck, Mr. Gorski, written and produced by John Huston's daughter Allegra and in which Gary plays Mr. Gorski.
