Whit Hertford

Whit Flint's (formerly Whit Hertford) film career spans almost four decades and began at an early age, most notably with his appearance in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Additional Film / TV: Raising Hope, Glee, Star Wars: Clone Wars and The Perfect 46 (Best Actor - 2014 Filmquest) and WIldlife (2015 Cannes Film Festival - Short film corner). He received an MFA in theatre directing from The University of Essex's East 15 in the UK. He additionally studied in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Whilst in graduate school he founded Riot Act in 2015. Quickly established himself in the London fringe theatre with a penchant for adapting radical resuscitations of classic works and new writing in the style of avant garde realism / abstract surrealism. He also served as an Associate Director at Theatre N16 in South London and The Courtyard Theatre. He is a member of the Young Vic Directors Programme and was an invitee director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. He directed all of Riot Act's productions for the first decade of operation, culminating in nineteen plays. Theatre acting credits include: Gross Old Man (Vanya), Blindness and Periphery of Sight (Oedipus), The Aliens (regional premiere - KJ), Three Sisters (Solyony), Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (Aslaksen), Anatomy of Arithmetic (UK production - Ratio TV), True West (Austin) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom), From Morn to Midnight, Twelfth Night (Malvolio), The Tempest (Caliban), Measure for Measure (Lucio), Hamlet (Gravedigger), A Lie of the Mind. He holds a BFA from the prestigious Actor Training Program at the University of Utah. Whit is also an abstract painter via IG @whitflint.