Brock D. Vickers
Brock D. Vickers is an actor, writer, and athlete who loves to play. He has made his way from the muggy bogs of Southeast Georgia to the City of Brotherly Love, making notable stops all over the United States from American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida to Captial Stage in Sacramento, California.
Brock trained at Darton College where he was an Academic All-American with the Cavaliers baseball team and received an Associates of Arts with an emphasis in Theatre focusing on classes in history, improv, and performance. After Darton, Brock followed his big brother's recommendation to became a Georgia Southern Eagle and moved to Statesboro, Ga. where honed his craft for three years studying under Lisa Abbott, Mical Whitaker, and Jim Harbour.
Before leaving GSU, Brock appeared in over twenty productions, was President of the student organization Theatre South, maintained the public relations and marketing department of the Theatre and Performance program, wrote and shot video for the Statesboro Herald as well as The George-Anne Daily, and last but indeed not least snagged degrees in both Theatre and Journalism. He is now educated in "B.S.-ing" with his B.A.
Southern will always hold a place in his heart, as it was the opportunity to fall in love with performing again. He played roles as dark as the Commendedor in Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna and as light as the lovable drunkard Stephano in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Theatre at Southern allowed Brock to take "the sugar pill of knowledge," and experience theatre in every aspect from both performance to stagehand. Whether it was through dance interpretation in What Use Are Flowers? By Lorraine Hansberry or writing features on the beautiful performers around him for the Statesboro Herald, Brock was always on the move writing, acting, or representing Theatre and Performance for GSU.
After GSU, Brock moved to Pennsylvania and began his acting career with the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire as the lovable, self-indulgent antagonist Christopher "Kit" Marlowe. At Faire, Brock was re-introduced to a lost love, improvisation. Through the Admiral Men's Masterpiece Theatre and the minute to minute interaction of the streets of the Shire of Mount Hope an old spark of on the spot creation and storytelling was rekindled (not to mention he got to play a lot with swords). Once Faire came to a close, he moved to Philadelphia on a whim where he began to expand his influences in theatre by performing as a clown in Kerrigan and Lowdermilk's "A Flash of Time" for the 2013 PIFA festival, improvising Murder Mysteries and Dinner theaters with multiple companies in the Tri-State area, and drinking the night away with audiences in "Bye Bye Liver." While in Philadelphia he has educated and improvised for children with the Garden State Discovery Museum, introduced young adults to Shakespeare with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Company, and devised works and plays with local companies and playwrights. Philadelphia has been and continued to be a place of growth for Brock as he learns the ins and outs of the business of theatre and the craft of acting.
With growth in mind, he took the next step of his journey by joining America's oldest repertory theater, Hedgerow Theatre. After touring for the summer, Brock auditioned and was accepted to the fellowship program at the 91-year-old theatre company. He has been seen as Fred in A Christmas Carol, jumped into the many roles of the Storytimers! with the characters in Peter Pan or Pinocchio, as Willoughby in Jane Austen's original novel Sense and Sensibility, and the villainous Julian in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors.
Favorite roles at Hedgerow include Bullshot in Bullshot Crummond, Man in On the Verge, Charles II in Or,, Florindo in Servant of Two Masters, and the Fool in Don Quixote. While at Hedgerow I wrote and performed two interactive children's theatre pieces, Storytime! Snow White and Storytime! Peter Pan, as well as adapted Tales from Edgar Allan Poe and The Hound of the Baskervilles. This work has given way to three new plays being produced in 2019, Blood on the Knockers, The Ballad of Scaramouche, and Irene Adler and Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
His work as a Theatre Artist has led him to many different jobs in the theatre world, from tour guide to a teacher to model and marketer. In Philadelphia, he has written his plays as well as devised works with others and attended fantastic training sessions with The Philadelphia Artists Collective and Pig Iron School for Advanced Training. All of my experience here in Philadelphia has enriched his love and appreciation for the value of a story.
In Philadelphia, he has worked with Shakespeare in Clark Park, the Lantern Theatre Company, Senior Stage, Open Hearts on Tour, Quintessence Theatre Group, and the Eagle. Across the U.S. he has performed with American Stage, Capital Stage, Rehoboth Summer Repertory Theatre, and the Texas Shakespeare Festival.
Recently, I have had the good fortune to tell stories professionally full-time as a member of Actors’ Equity and has begun to focus more on film and television appearing in numerous movies and commercials. You can catch him in the upcoming short horror films Hexercise and the Harm/less, as well as features such as Savage Beauty and Marfa. If you keep your eye open for social media ads, you will notice him as the face of EverWash, Ridge Wallet, and numerous other commercials from Giant Supermarkets to Arctic Buzz.
Baseball gave him the foundation of discipline and teamwork. Theatre has taught him the importance of the mastery of craft and the power of the company. For Brock, acting is nothing more than the examined life; and the real magic onstage exists between the interaction of the people. The art that happens between two actors, two players, two people living in the moment, is a beautiful thing. Every chance to play, every opportunity to perform, every moment to live is a gift, and the fact we are allowed to entertain should not be wasted.
Brock trained at Darton College where he was an Academic All-American with the Cavaliers baseball team and received an Associates of Arts with an emphasis in Theatre focusing on classes in history, improv, and performance. After Darton, Brock followed his big brother's recommendation to became a Georgia Southern Eagle and moved to Statesboro, Ga. where honed his craft for three years studying under Lisa Abbott, Mical Whitaker, and Jim Harbour.
Before leaving GSU, Brock appeared in over twenty productions, was President of the student organization Theatre South, maintained the public relations and marketing department of the Theatre and Performance program, wrote and shot video for the Statesboro Herald as well as The George-Anne Daily, and last but indeed not least snagged degrees in both Theatre and Journalism. He is now educated in "B.S.-ing" with his B.A.
Southern will always hold a place in his heart, as it was the opportunity to fall in love with performing again. He played roles as dark as the Commendedor in Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna and as light as the lovable drunkard Stephano in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Theatre at Southern allowed Brock to take "the sugar pill of knowledge," and experience theatre in every aspect from both performance to stagehand. Whether it was through dance interpretation in What Use Are Flowers? By Lorraine Hansberry or writing features on the beautiful performers around him for the Statesboro Herald, Brock was always on the move writing, acting, or representing Theatre and Performance for GSU.
After GSU, Brock moved to Pennsylvania and began his acting career with the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire as the lovable, self-indulgent antagonist Christopher "Kit" Marlowe. At Faire, Brock was re-introduced to a lost love, improvisation. Through the Admiral Men's Masterpiece Theatre and the minute to minute interaction of the streets of the Shire of Mount Hope an old spark of on the spot creation and storytelling was rekindled (not to mention he got to play a lot with swords). Once Faire came to a close, he moved to Philadelphia on a whim where he began to expand his influences in theatre by performing as a clown in Kerrigan and Lowdermilk's "A Flash of Time" for the 2013 PIFA festival, improvising Murder Mysteries and Dinner theaters with multiple companies in the Tri-State area, and drinking the night away with audiences in "Bye Bye Liver." While in Philadelphia he has educated and improvised for children with the Garden State Discovery Museum, introduced young adults to Shakespeare with the Philadelphia Shakespeare Company, and devised works and plays with local companies and playwrights. Philadelphia has been and continued to be a place of growth for Brock as he learns the ins and outs of the business of theatre and the craft of acting.
With growth in mind, he took the next step of his journey by joining America's oldest repertory theater, Hedgerow Theatre. After touring for the summer, Brock auditioned and was accepted to the fellowship program at the 91-year-old theatre company. He has been seen as Fred in A Christmas Carol, jumped into the many roles of the Storytimers! with the characters in Peter Pan or Pinocchio, as Willoughby in Jane Austen's original novel Sense and Sensibility, and the villainous Julian in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors.
Favorite roles at Hedgerow include Bullshot in Bullshot Crummond, Man in On the Verge, Charles II in Or,, Florindo in Servant of Two Masters, and the Fool in Don Quixote. While at Hedgerow I wrote and performed two interactive children's theatre pieces, Storytime! Snow White and Storytime! Peter Pan, as well as adapted Tales from Edgar Allan Poe and The Hound of the Baskervilles. This work has given way to three new plays being produced in 2019, Blood on the Knockers, The Ballad of Scaramouche, and Irene Adler and Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
His work as a Theatre Artist has led him to many different jobs in the theatre world, from tour guide to a teacher to model and marketer. In Philadelphia, he has written his plays as well as devised works with others and attended fantastic training sessions with The Philadelphia Artists Collective and Pig Iron School for Advanced Training. All of my experience here in Philadelphia has enriched his love and appreciation for the value of a story.
In Philadelphia, he has worked with Shakespeare in Clark Park, the Lantern Theatre Company, Senior Stage, Open Hearts on Tour, Quintessence Theatre Group, and the Eagle. Across the U.S. he has performed with American Stage, Capital Stage, Rehoboth Summer Repertory Theatre, and the Texas Shakespeare Festival.
Recently, I have had the good fortune to tell stories professionally full-time as a member of Actors’ Equity and has begun to focus more on film and television appearing in numerous movies and commercials. You can catch him in the upcoming short horror films Hexercise and the Harm/less, as well as features such as Savage Beauty and Marfa. If you keep your eye open for social media ads, you will notice him as the face of EverWash, Ridge Wallet, and numerous other commercials from Giant Supermarkets to Arctic Buzz.
Baseball gave him the foundation of discipline and teamwork. Theatre has taught him the importance of the mastery of craft and the power of the company. For Brock, acting is nothing more than the examined life; and the real magic onstage exists between the interaction of the people. The art that happens between two actors, two players, two people living in the moment, is a beautiful thing. Every chance to play, every opportunity to perform, every moment to live is a gift, and the fact we are allowed to entertain should not be wasted.
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On the Verge by Eric Overmyer
"an actor who can do everything and look effortless doing it..." - NealsPaper "He blends comedy and seriousness seamlessly while giving full dimension to the various parts he assays." NealsPaper "Vickers morphs seamlessly into each [character] Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn "Reese’s henchman Julian (solidly portrayed by Brock Vickers)" -The Inquirer Sense and Sensibility by Jon Jory " As Mr. Willoughby. Brock D. Vickers displays all of the charm and esprit...to be a man of spunk." -NealsPaper "Hedgerow Fellow Brock Vickers follows up his turn as the cad Willoughby in SENSE & SENSIBILITY with a terrific turn as the villainous Julian. Vickers seems to relish every nasty aspect of the character—yet manages to get his share of the laughs as well. It’s a solid performance." Stage Magazine "....exudes menace with the conscienceless nonchalance and teasing sarcasm of a Pinter thug...truly scary" NealsPaper |
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