Biography of Roland Tec

Roland Tec¹s plays, films and operas have been seen throughout the U.S., Europe, South America as well as in Africa and Australia and he has received commissions from such organizations as Concorde, Harvard University, and the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, among others. His play, BODILY FUNCTION (2000 Edward Albee Award; 2001 O¹Neill finalist) premiered at The Culture Project in New York City. Before moving to New York City in 2001, Tec served as Founding Artistic Director of New Opera Theatre Ensemble in Boston, which presented new works of music-theatre in such unlikely venues as the The Boston Public Library and the Charles Hayden Planetarium. In 1998, Tec was the first artist to be represented in both the music and the film sections of the prestigious South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, with a live concert by New Opera Theatre Ensemble and the screening of his film, ALL THE RAGE. Tec is currently at work on two upcoming feature films, THE WRECK BEHIND US (based on his stage play) and RED STATE PROJECT. His short play, SNIFFING OUT THE IMPOSTORS, was recently commissioned for the centennial celebration of the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, at which Tec was a resident in 2001. His first feature film, ALL THE RAGE, which he wrote, directed and scored, was released in the U.S. and abroad and was called "One of the sharpest, sexiest and most amusing satires of gay life ever filmed" by the Los Angeles Times. Roland Tec is a member of The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and The Dramatists Guild.