Adrian Sparks

Adrian Sparks is a veteran of the American stage. His leading stage work includes productions at Seattle Repertory, Long Wharf, the Shakespeare Theater Company in Wash, DC, and the Tyrone Guthrie in Minnesota. In 2005, his Los Angeles performance as Ernest Hemingway in John deGroot's one-man play Papa brought an Ovation Award nomination for Best Actor. He won an Acclaim Award for Best Leading Actor and a CEA Award for Best Actor in 2009 for playing Sharky in The Seafarer at Cincinnati's Ensemble Theater. Beginning in 2010, he worked several seasons in San Diego at The Old Globe as a leading player in the Shakespeare company founded by Adrian Noble, and his Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind earned a Craig Noel Award nomination for Best Actor in 2013. On screen, his more than 75 film, television, and commercial credits include the leading role of Hemingway in Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015).