Background
His father is a dentist and his mother is a former grade school teacher.
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Stephen Kunken
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Juilliard School; Tufts University.
Career
Kunken was raised on Long Island in Upper Brookville, New New York Kunken received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University in 1993. Office-Broadway, he playedTim Andrews in the award-winning Richard Nelson cycle of Apple Plays, which includes That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, and Regular Singing.
Played the title role as Nikolai Nabakov in Lincoln Center Theater"s production of Richard Nelson"s Nikolai and the Others.
Regionally, Kunken has appeared in Quartermaine’s Terms, True West, Three Sisters at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. And Mister Roberts at the Kennedy Center, among many other credits.
His television credits include: Unforgettable, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Gossip Girl, The Unusuals, New Amsterdam, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, The Sopranos, Spin City, Far East, Mary and Rhoda and The Affair. On film, Kunken"s work includes The Wolf of Wall Street, Still Alice, A Birder"s Guide to Everything, The Bay, Price Check, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, All Good Things, Taking Woodstock, The Girl in the Park, Wait "til This Year, Light and the Sufferer, and Bamboozled.
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His Broadway credits include Frost/Nixon, Rock "n" Roll, and Enron, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Play. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School"s Graduate Acting program, where as a member of the Drama Division"s Group 26 (1993–1997) he was awarded both The John Houseman Prize and the Pearl and Rolands Grant. Kunken has appeared on Broadway as David Halberstam in David Auburn"s The Columnist, opposite Kathleen Turner in High, Tom Stoppard’s Rock "n" Roll, Frost/Nixon (for which he received Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award nominations), Festen, and Proof. Foreign his turn as Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow in Lucy Prebble"s Enron, he received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Play. He has appeared as Doctor Philosophy in the critically acclaimed production of Kate Fodor"s romantic comedy RX, as the Stage Manager in the 2009 David Cromer helmed revival of Thornton Wilder"s Our Town, Theresa Rebeck"s Our House, Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons, A Very Common Procedure at Manhattan Class Company (for which he received a Drama League Award nomination), Journals of Mihail Sebastian with the Keen Company, The Story, Henry VIII and A Dybbuk at the Public Theater and Misalliance at the Roundabout Theatre Company.
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