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Mr. Lochtefeld was an original cast member of Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award winning Metamorphoses on and off-Broadway. He originated the role of Lumpy in the Broadway premiere of the musical King Kong and understudied Bruce Willis in Misery. Other New York credits include Unknown Soldier at Playwright’s Horizons, Macbeth at CSC, A Walk with Mr Heifitz at Primary Stages, Napoli, Brooklyn at the Roundabout, The Light Years at Playwright’s, A Funny Thing…of New York City at MCC, Stupid F***ing Bird at The Pearl, the original cast of Small Mouth Sounds at Ars Nova, Powerhouse at the New Ohio, Row After Row at The Women’s Project, Tamar of the River with Prospect Theatre Co., Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play with 13P, W.H. Auden in February House at The Pubic, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci at Second Stage, and But I’m a Cheerleader at NYMF. Recent regional credits include Unknown Soldier at Williamstown, Hamlet starring Paul Giamatti at Yale Rep, Candide at the Goodman, Shakespeare and Huntington Theatre, Ethan Frome at Lookingglass Theatre, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at Hartford Stage, the title role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois at the Intiman, the world premiere of Richard Nelson’s How Shakespeare Won the West at the Huntington, These Shining Lives at Baltimore Centerstage, Katurian in The Pillowman at Berkeley Rep, directed by Les Waters and Tom in The Glass Menagerie opposite Rita Moreno (Bay Area Critics Nom. Best Actor), also at Berkeley Rep. He has had the pleasure of working at Long Wharf, The O’Neill, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cal Shakes, Two River Theatre, McCarter, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare and among others. Television credits include HBO’s The Plot Against America, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, All My Children, Third Watch and Law&Order. He can also be seen in the award winning indie film In a New York Minute. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and is married to Theatre/TV/Screenwriter Laura Eason.