Christopher Abbott on His Breakout Broadway Role in The House of Blue Leaves

Age and Hometown: 25; Stamford, CT

Currently: Giving a combustible Broadway debut performance as Ronnie Shaughnessy, an AWOL son with an attention-getting plan to greet the Pope, in the Broadway revival of John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves.

Movie Maven: Acting never entered Abbott’s mind as a kid, though he became a film buff as a teen staffer at a video store. “I watched movies constantly, so the seed was planted,” he says. A theater class at a local community college sparked Abbott to try a professional acting course at HB Studio taught by stage pro Anne Jackson. “I loved it,” he says, and his quirky handsomeness and shy demeanor quickly led to off-Broadway roles at Second Stage (Good Boys and True), the New Group (Mouth to Mouth) and Roundabout (The Overwhelming). Of his varied resume, most recently an Oedipal storyline in That Face at MTC, Abbott notes, “I’m young, but I feel like I can connect with [a play’s] emotional reality.”

Blue Crew: Abbott kicks off the second act of The House of Blue Leaves by arming himself for a violent stunt while delivering a hilarious monologue about his character’s crazy family. “I ...

Source: http://www.broadway.com/shows/house-blue-leaves/buzz/156797/christopher-abbott-on-his-breakout-broadway-role-in-the-house-of-blue-leaves/

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