Raoul Daniel Luna is an Actor/Writer who studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts. He made his regional stage debut in the Helen Hayes Award winning musical Children with Stones at Source Theater in D.C. Roles soon followed at: The Studio Theater, The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre and many others. In D.C. Raoul earned his Screen Actors Guild and Actor's Equity cards while acting in industrial films, and network television shows filmed in the area (America's Most Wanted; Unsolved Mysteries; Homicide: Life on the Streets), and working as a voice over artist.
D.C. highlights include: his first directorial effort (Freedom Stage's production of Paul MacWhorter's Lost & Found at Church Street Theater); providing simultaneous English audio translation for Hugo Medrano's Helen Hayes Award winning performance as Molina in El Beso de la Mujer Aranya/Kiss of the Spider Woman at GALA Hispanic Theatre; a fellowship with The Shakespeare Theatre's "Intensive Classical Training Workshop for Professional Actors of Color"; and traveling to the Seattle Fringe Festival with the one-man-show "Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown", where it sold-out and was subsequently produced at Round House Theatre.
Raoul returned to New York when he turned 30. With Stephanie Bok, he created Mission Theatre Company, where he directed Jose Rivera's Sonnets for an Old Century and Robert Chesley's Stray Dog Story. He also directed spoken word artist Regie Cabico's Onomatopoeia… and Faith, Hope and Regie at HERE.
In 2011, Raoul created the web series Still with It, which follows "the comedic adventures of Julian Johns, a career actor who is desperate to be famous, and willing to do anything (and anyone) to achieve the fame that has unreasonably eluded him." Imagine a bi-sexual Joey on Friends with a little Karen Walker thrown in for fun. Two episodes are complete and a third is in the works.
Raoul recently completed an original screenplay, "Vertical Afterimage".
2012 will find Raoul writing and performing a one-man-show exploring the meaning of "family" in the age of Marriage Equality. Regie Cabico is set to direct. A venue is to be announced.
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