Gary Simpson

Metropolitan Opera Principle Artist Gary Simpson will be seen as Hobart Showalter in HBO/Cinemax's new series "The Knick" starring Clive Owen and directed by Steven Soderbergh premiering in 2014. Gary worked for two seasons as a Firefighter for the US Forest Service, Payette Forest, New Meadows District and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Gary can also be seen as "Pritschisch" in "The Merry Widow" at the Metropolitan Opera in the Winter of 2014 under the direction of Susan Stroman. He sang "Sweeney" in "Sweeney Todd" at the Globe Theater in Odessa Texas and also sang IAGO in Verdi's "Otello" with the Kalamazoo Symphony. Gary was just seen in the American Premier of the opera "Matsukaze" in the role of "The Monk"at the Spoleto Festival last summer. He also performed "The Monk" at the Lincoln Center Festival. Gary performed with Phillip Bosco for the Shakespeare Marathon with the New York Shakespeare Festival. He was seen as "Miles Gloriosus" in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" with TheatreZone, in Naples Fla. Gary sang "Mephistopheles" in "Faust" with Opera Naples, "Sweeney Todd" with the Nevada Opera, "Scarpia" and "Pizzaro" in Frankfurt, Germany and also "Iago" with the Arizona Opera. Mr Simpson sang Holländer in "Der Fliegende Holländer" , in Cape Town, South Africa. Gary sang "Holländer" at the BNO,Bucharesti Romania, the Statni Opera Prague, Czech Republic, the Manaus Opera Festival in Manaus Brazil, as well as with the Hawaii Opera Theater, Honolulu, Hawaii. He has sung "Iago" with the Minnesota Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater, The Otello Project designed and directed by Anthony Laciura of The Metropolitan Opera and HBO's Boardwalk Empire and with the Opera Orchestra of New York as well as Arizona Opera. Gary has worked with; The Metropolitan Opera - Palm Beach Opera- Deutsche Oper Berlin- Theater Hagen- Bucharest National Opera- San Fransisco Opera- Los Angeles Opera- Statni Oper Prague- Opera Lyra Ottawa- Opera Naples- Hong Kong Grand- Arizona Opera- Shanghai Grand Theater- Colombo Sri Lanka- Houston Grand Opera- Seattle Opera- Open Air Gars- Hawaii Opera- Tulsa Opera- Nevada Opera.