Boston based Actor, Writer, Comedian, Albino.
Currently, Dennis can be seen at ImprovBoston as a sketch performer with his two man sketch comedy duo, Sawyer and Hurley. As a freelance, non-union actor, Dennis can usually be found performing with various Boston theater companies such as Bad Habit Productions and The Factory Theater. He produces, writes and performs in short films and film sketches with Castparty Productions and ImprovBoston Film. With the film production company he founded, Downcellar Films, Dennis Wrote/Produced/Co-Starred in “The Albino Code”, the internationally acclaimed parody of “The DaVinci Code”, featured on CNN, MSNBC, INSIDE EDITION, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, FOX NEWS, featured articles in PEOPLE MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK POST, THE BOSTON HERALD, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, and reviewed by top film critic, Ty Burr, in THE BOSTON GLOBE. His company assisted in launching the comedic viral video “Hurley Brothers Home Furnature” has reached nearly 6,000 hits! www.youtube.com/improvboston.
Dennis began his career as a performer studying Acting at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York and improvisational training with ImprovBoston and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC. A stint in New York City would follow as Dennis acted in such Off-Off Broadway productions as: Salad Days, A Christmas Carol, Naked, The Birth Adoption and Death of Dorothy Dutchess, Evil Hellcat And Other Lurid Tales, The Mail Play, The Nutcracker And The Mouse King, Killing The Great White Tiger, 92 Jonquil Lane, Where’s Charley?, Measure For Measure, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, The Girl Most Likely To…, The Golf Wars, The Magic Of Mrs. Crowling. Background film work includes: LAW AND ORDER, LAW AND ORDER: SVU, SEX AND THE CITY, Gunther in the “Friends” sketch on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (2004). Dennis has performed in over 40 states across the U.S.A. including the original play, Diamond In The Rough, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
As a writer, Dennis’ original plays were also produced Off-Off Broadway: Break Up (The Independent Theatre, Theatre Studio Inc.), City Oblivious (TheaterVision Playtime Series), Dating Grim (The Barrow Group), Oblivious (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), She Returns (Strawberry One Act Festival, The Network NYC Festival), His screenplay, THE TELLER, was a “Comedy Finalist” in the BlueCat Screenwriting Lab Pitch Development Awards.
Downcellar Films has several sketches and feature films in various stages of development.