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Eric Starker

Current projects:

I’m singing the lead role of Thomas (a young, lovesick tenor) in Karl Keppler’s opera, At a Party, performing at the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, between Bleeker and Hudson) on May 22nd at 10PM. Tickets are available at the door for $20, or call 212-614-0505.

I’ll be singing carols in a spec radio commercial, for Andy Mendelson.

I’ll be acting in spec commercials for the director’s reel of Sean Scanlin at O Positive.

I’m doing a libretto workshop for American Opera Projects on May 7^th.

I appeared in a short video for Howcast.com, directed by Colin Rich, entitled How to Get Your Seatmate to Shut the Hell Up, playing the annoying seatmate. It should appear on the website shortly.

I’m a voiceover actor for a radio drama called The Adventures of Charlie Black, directed/written by Xavier Paul. I played several characters for episode one:  "The Weathermaster", including the main villain, and am in process of recording more episodes.

I will be singing on the demo CD for Merry-Go-Round, the musical I performed a reading of in December (recording it in June). I will be singing several solo songs: “Manhattan Blues,” “Dreams of Yesterday,” and the songs I performed at the reading, “XYZ,” and the duet, “Time,” in addition to ensemble numbers. 

I have started freelancing with Emerging Talent Agency.

I perform in murder mysteries and corporate team-building events for two companies, ComedyTheater and the Go Game.

Recent projects (2008):

I sang a lead part on the song, “Knights on the Rim,” a song for Michael Vicari for his School of Visual Arts final 3D animation project.

I played the role of Phil for filmed scenes as part of a multimedia play, Fire Island, a world premiere by Charles Mee (author of Big Love, Iphigenia 2.0 and Orestes 2.0, among others), for 3-Legged Dog Productions.  Filming occurred summer and fall of 2007, and it April 10 to May 3, Thursday-Saturday evenings at 8PM at 3-Legged Dog (80 Greenwich St. in Manhattan).   Some footage and more information is available here.

I appeared in The Blue Flower at Prospect Theatre Company, playing the Typewriter Man, a dada performance artist.  It's a musical about the relationships of four artists during World War I (and three other characters, including mine, who serve as a Greek chorus/framework).  The piece was in the New York Musical Festival in 2004 and has received awards for the piece and for its composers, Jim and Ruth Bauer.  It ran Feb 2 - March 2 at the West End Theatre (263 West 86th Street in Manhattan).

I acted/puppeteered a costumed character at New York Comic Con, specifically a bagpipe player creature, for the Hellboy 2 panel presentation and photo shoot, with Guillermo del Toro, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and others.