On the comic-book show, Kudisch plays Ty Rathbone, an original character certainly with a story to tell. I was always a huge fan of The Tick in college.
The Tick , of course, is the animated creation of Ben Edlund. It started out as a character in print and had a TV adaptation a while back. This new reboot has become a successful staple in the Amazon original programming block. The new series stars Peter Serafinowicz as the title character, a somewhat boneheaded superhero whose mishaps are an obvious riff on comic-book culture. I got a very specific idea of the character when I read it, and luckily that I think was exactly what they were looking for — subtle and kind of crazy at the same time.
The actor loves the irreverence of the comedy series and its homage to the joy and love of reading comic books. And it all worked out. This could be this here. Then those things started showing up in the television and film world more and more often. And suddenly, opportunities that way started to come. Most of the people on their shows, even though you may know them from film, are from the stage.
So, suddenly, there was like this great stage work on film. But then that side of the industry took off and there I was just finding myself shooting as much film as I was doing stage work. Even right now, I shot a couple more episodes on Billions this season. The Tick is going to premiere. I have a fun feature role in that. I have a really nice feature role in that. I shot all of that last year.
So, all of this stuff is coming out in between the theater work. Marc Kudisch: Yeah, like my first true musical in a long time. I was in Amsterdam two years ago, working for the Dutch National on new piece. Really cool.
Wild, wild new opera. All of it at once. Marc Kudisch: It is. It also raises the question of me kind of still figuring out who the hell I am. Where you are in your career, producers know you, casting directors, directors… They all know your work. Besides doing interviews, do you still have to market yourself or anything like that?
For me, I still send out headshots or postcards and all that nonsense. What do you have to do or is that sort of a thing of the past for you? Marc Kudisch: I mean, look, it all depends on where we are. It depends on where we are in terms of what the bottom line is to how the business is essentially running.
I can tell you before , I was barely auditioning. I was just getting offers. I was a guy you went to for things. Then the recession hit and suddenly I found that people were asking me to audition for workshops. Now it was like they wanted to make sure that those people would give them some security that they were hiring, so that were then stunt casting even more. They were looking for guarantees.
But I also have an agency, I have a management team that do things. But am I still out there plugging away, and still pumping, and still pushing? Am I out there still trying to sell my own projects and things like that? Yeah, but I think you should do that anyway. When I went in and auditioned for the film Late Night , and I got hired…. They were shooting in New York, so they were hiring great quality in New York. In his thankfully longer-than-usual splendid cabaret confessional, Kudisch proves himself once again to be one of the most electric musical theater performers of his generation.
Doug is a graduate of the University of Virginia B. Commerce and J. Doug has written articles and poems and short stories for a number of publications and websites.
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