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Damon Kirsche originated the role of Logos and presented the earliest versions of Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost in Los Angeles, New York and Berlin. He is honored to bring this extraordinary music to new generations and audiences.
Damon performs in theatres and concert halls across the country, hailed for his "riveting showmanship," (Variety) and his "resplendent baritone" with "power and panache" (Backstage) as well as his "beautiful precision of style," (NY Festival of Song). The Dallas Morning News raved of his appearance with the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya, "We all thought they didn't make leading men like this for the American musical theatre anymore. Mr. Kirsche shows off a gorgeous legit voice, used with delicacy as well as power."
In the last year, Damon has played a variety roles in classic and lesser-known works of the American stage, ranging from King Arthur in Camelot (Music Theatre of Wichita) and Curly McClain in Oklahoma! (CLO-South Bay Cities) to staged concerts of Jule Styne and Comden and Green's Fade Out/Fade In (Byron Prong) and High Spirits, the 1964 musical adaptation of Noel Coward's Blythe Spirit (Charles Condomine) both with LA's award-winning Musical Theatre Guild), to a recent turn as the sadist dentist Orin Scrivello, DDS (and 5 additional roles) in Little Shop of Horrors (Cabrillo Music Theatre).
In recent seasons at the South Coast Repertory Damon premiered An Italian Straw Hat originating the roles of Émile and Nisnardi, "The Nightingale of Bologna," and appeared as the Count Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music with Marc Jacoby and Stephanie Zimbalist. He received a best supporting actor Ovation nomination for his Freddy Einsford-Hill in McCoy/Rigby's production of My Fair Lady, where he'd previously appeared in the Sinatra tribute My Way. Other favorite roles of recent years include Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady and the title role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (Music Theatre of Wichita), Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods (California Music Theatre) and Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along (TheatreWorks).
Damon has revived various works of the American Musical Theatre with both LA's Reprise Theatre, including She Loves Me (as Steven Kodaly, with Rebecca Luker), On the 20th Century (as Bruce Granit, with Bob Gunton and Carolee Carmello) and with NY's City Center Encores series in revivals of Sweet Adeline, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Strike Up the Band, and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (the latter two with Kristin Chenoweth). He is a proud member of L.A.'s Musical Theatre Guild (with which he's appeared in staged concerts of Finian's Rainbow (Woody), Parade (Britt Craig), Li'l Abner (Abner Yokum), It's A Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! (Superman/Clark), Street Scene (Harry Easter) and Out of this World (Art/Jupiter).
Damon has been a featured soloist at the Kennedy Center, NY's City Center, Weill Hall, the 92nd St Y, Lincoln Center, the Berliner Dom and with the California Philharmonic, and his show "Down on the Farm" (written with Andrew Martin), showcasing readings and songs from the American Song Book about food and agriculture, was recently performed at the Stone Barns Center at the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, NY. Damon sings throughout Southern California as lead crooner for vintage swing orchestra and big band "Dean Mora and his Orchestra" and is featured on their CDs "Goblin Market" and "Devil's Serenade."
On screen, Damon can be seen as Civil War era performer Harry McCarthy in Ted Turner's epic Gods and Generals. He debuted the Nuu'bari race on Star Trek: Voyager.
Damon was raised on an organic family farm in Windsor, North Dakota. Training: The Juilliard School. Proud member, Actor's Equity.
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