Education
He graduated in 1982 from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia.
He graduated in 1982 from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia.
He is probably best known for his roles as Detective Parker in the late 1990s American Broadcasting Company series Cracker and for his role as Stanley Kowalski on stage in A Streetcar Named Desire. In film he has played some notable minor roles, such as a mercenary in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), a prison guard in Dead Manitoba Walking (1995), and a condemned man in True Grit (2010). Aside from numerous dramatic readings for audiobooks, Sowers has also provided his voice for videogames such as Batman: Dark Tomorrow (2003) (Mr Zsasz) and Homefront (2011).
He began as a stage actor, and in 1989 New York Magazine praised his "excellent" performance as Starns in the play Heathen Valley.
In 1991 he established the Signature Theater Company with James Houghton. In 1992 the Chicago Sun-Times noted Sowers"s "formidable colonel" in a stage production of "A Few Good Men" at the Shubert Theatre.
In 1996, Sowers played Will Masters on stage in a Broadway production of Business Stop. In 2004 he played Stanley Kowalski, a major character in A Streetcar Named Desire at Studio 54 in New York City which he was praised for, although the following year John C. Reilly played the part and Sowers played the more minor part of Steve.
In 2007 he appeared on Broadway in "Inherit the Wind".
With the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Sowers appeared in productions of "Matthew and the Pastor’s Wife", "Lenin’s Embalmers", "Princes of Waco", and "Lucy". He has also appeared on stage in the Wilma Theater of Philadelphia, the Long Wharf Theater of New Haven, Connecticut in 2003, the Actor"s Theater of Louisville, the Baltimore Center Stage, and the Oslo Festival in Norway. In September 2012 he appeared at the Valborg Theatre of Appalachian State University in "Romulus Linney.
Back Home in the Mountains: A Tribute to Romulus Linney".