Education
He is an alumnus of the Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated with a Bachelor"s degree in English Literature and Theatre Studies at Yale University.
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Asa Somers
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Regional theatre Somers appeared in the regional theatre productions of Kean as Edmund Kean at Yale University, We"re All Dead as Oedipus Rex at the Blue Heron Arts Center, Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Hedwig at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco, Hair as Berger at the Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, Manitoba In The White Suit as Michael at New York Stage & Film, and Tallgrass Gothic as Daniel at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Somers recently finished a run at Dallas Theater Center, where he played The Narrator in Fly By Night, April 26 to May 26, 2013. Film work Somers co-stars as Kyle Cassimer in the 2009 independent film Clear Blue Tuesday, a rock musical revolving around the September 11 attacks, which opened at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village.
He is featured in the independent films Never Forever as Rich, which was shown at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and Ira & Abby as Gus.
Somers also appears in the shorts A Change of Climate as Eddie, When Stars Fall as Capella, and Number, Number Now as Adrian Lanes. Somers" new rock musical,, had a closed developmental reading on July 2, 2012.
The reading cast included former Next to Normal cast members, Brian d"Arcy James, Preston Sadleir, and Emma Hunton and was directed by Louis Hobson. The show will have a free public presentation at Seattle"s Balagan Theatre on January 14, 2013.
The workshop features a different cast than the 2012 closed reading but is directed by Louis Hobson, who also directed the reading.
