Montgomery Sutton

Teaches at Rude Grooms

Montgomery Sutton is an actor, playwright, director, and teacher. As an acting teacher, he is on faculty for the Atlantic Acting School in their NYU, Conservatory, and Part-Time programs, and has taught for the Shakespeare Theater Association, the World Shakespeare Congress, Shakespeare Dallas, the Gilbert Theatre, Junior Players, Dallas Children’s Theater, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, New York Shakespeare Company, and Rude Grooms. 

Acting credits include Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New York Classical Theatre), One Man, Two Guvnors (Florida Studio Theater), Oswald (Casa Manana), Shakespeare in Love, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest (Shakespeare Dallas), Henry V (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), Measure for Measure, Richard III, Love’s Labours Lost, King Lear (Trinity Shakespeare Festival), Pericles, The Winter’s Tale (Seven Stages Shakespeare Company), Booth, Gruesome Playground Injuries (Second Thought Theatre), Tomorrow Come Today (Undermain Theatre), The Temperamentals (Uptown Players), On the Eve, The Language of Angels (Theater Three). As Master of the Revels for Queens-based Rude Grooms, he was an actor in The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Witch of Edmonton and actor-manager for Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Changeling, and the Secret Shakespeare Hunt. 

Work in film and new media include the 1865 podcast, Skindiving, and Trouble with Women. He has directed his original verse adaptations of Antigone and Oedipus as well as his original play Ruins at the Gilbert Theatre, The Soothsayer at the Take Ten Festival (nominee, Best Director), co-directed Much Ado About Nothing at Junior Players, and directed ShakesBEERiences of The Tempest and his adaptation of The Shrew for Seven Stages Shakespeare Company. 

He received his BFA from NYU / Atlantic Acting School and was a member of the International Actors Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe.