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JEFF
LORCH
Imagining Lorch
Jeff Lorch cut his teeth as an improviser, spending years performing at iO West, UCB, and The Groundlings, and ongoing long form improvised plays at Impro Theatre. He is currently onstage at Rogue Machine Theatre in the critically acclaimed Nice Girl, having just closed another hit, Corktown ’39. Stage credits include AMERYKA at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, HUSBANDS & WIVES at theEnsemble Studio Theatre in Santa Barbara, and RHINOCEROS and A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at Pacific Resident Theatre. Born in Southfield, Michigan and raised with discipline by his French father, Jeff spent his formative years between two worlds—Midwestern summers of horseshoes and bowling, and European winters of red wine and “no elbows on the table.” Beyond acting, Jeff is a writer/director currently pitching a feature film based on his award-winning short STILL SCATTERED.
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NICE GIRL- "Jo gets some attention from local butcher Donny (the insanely talented Jeff Lorch, who was also richly wonderful in Rogue Machine’s recent historic drama Corktown '39)..."
-Broadway World
"Together with the exceedingly talented Jeff Lorch (as Donny) the cast of four place their emotions, vulnerabilities, and attitudes into the palms of our hands..."
-Discover Hollywood
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CORKTOWN '39 - "At the center is Martin Connor, played by Jeff Lorch, an IRA sniper recently returned from the Spanish Civil War. He carries a mission and a past that trails him like a second shadow. Lorch gives him weight without leaning into performance. Still. Watchful. Quiet in a way that unnerves. Regret slips out like a splinter beneath the skin." - Stage and Cinema
AMERYKA at the Kirk Douglas Theatre..."Jeff Lorch (outstanding as Tadeusz Kosciuszko)...Fantastic portrayals by Jeff Lorch and Curt Bonnem infuse these two men with many modern sensibilities, from their appreciation of great wine to their innate knowledge that slavery was wrong, even predicting its inevitable end would lead to the downfall of many Southern businesses in the future."
-BROADWAY WORLD
RHINOCEROS at Pacific Resident Theatre
"The best scene—that is, the one that is staged and acted the best—takes place in a newspaper office, where Bérenger works with the responsively rational Dudard (an impeccable Jeff Lorch)..."
-Stage Raw
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