Best bet on an actor to spot wherever you go
Currently he's crashing through the ceiling, like an angel in America, in the Huntington Theatre Company's
Betty's Summer Vacation. But probably the only theater where you won't find John Kuntz is a theater of war,
or maybe an operating theater. The Energizer Bunny of the Boston stage, the zany 33-year-old actor and
playwright has cut a zigzag swath between the Boston Center for the Arts and the city's larger venues -
including Boston Common, where he played a goofball Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, this summer's
free Commonwealth Shakespeare offering. He has also rotated in and out of that actor-employment playground
Shear Madness, seen his own play Emerald City produced by Centastage, told a gibberish fairy tale in the
Market Theater's The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, and impersonated a fraying Macy's Christmas elf
in Firefly Productions' The SantaLand Diaries. Next up: Kuntz opens in Shel's Shorts at the Market Theater
in December; his play Miss Price, written for Paula Plum, has its world premiere at Boston Playwrights'
Theatre in January. And, in his spare time, Kuntz has appeared in two not-yet-released horror movies. They
were not about his schedule.
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