Raul Aranas

The Engineer (1st USA National Tour, Broadway, London)

Raul Aranas was born and raised in the Philippines, where his father encouraged him to watch American movies to learn English. He then emigrated to the U.S. to finish his studies. He has been acting professionally for the past 15 years and can be seen in Oliver Stone's JFK. His other film and TV credits include a co-starring role with Lou Gossett in Gideon Oliver, featured roles in Law and Order and America's Most Wanted, Prisoners of Inertia with Amanda Plumber and Nighthawks. Most recently, he appeared on stage in Laurence Yep's Fairy Bones and in Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits, among numerous others, include Loose Ends, Marat/Sade, The Tooth of Crime, Suicide in B, Back Bog Beast Bait, Twelfth Night, Shogun, Macbeth, Savages, El Grande de Coca Cola. Mr. Aranas' regional credits include Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Rep., the Kennedy Center, ESIPA Albany, Cincinnati Playhouse (where he played Blackdog in the world premiere of Ara Watson's Treasure Island), the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the O'Neill Conference, the Cleveland Play House (where he originated the role of Cheka in the American premiere of Harold Mueller's Deathraft). Mr. Aranas also directed the Off-Broadway hit Yellow Fever which had several incarnations including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Summer 1988. Among his many directorial credits, Yellow Fever is still his favorite; he also directed it for the Canadian Artists Group at the Toronto Free Theatre in 1983, where it won several OMTA (Ontario Multicultural Theatre Association) Awards, including Best Director and Best New Production.

(1st USA National Tour, 1994)