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Timur Kocak's New York and regional credits include: Shotspeare (also Australia), The Last Cyclist, Waiting For Godot, Coriolanus (title role), Logomaniacs, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet (title role), As You Like It, The Three Musketeers, King John, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and A Christmas Carol.  UK: Hot Stuff (West End), Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour), The Exhibitionists (Edinburgh Festival and European tour), Airbase and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (RSC Fringe), Forsaking All Others, As You Like It and Henry V.  Television and film appearances in the US and UK include: Law and Order: SVU, Crime Monthly, The Egoists, The Last Cyclist and as a villain on NBC's Chuck.  


James Rana's stage plays/adaptations include: A Year in the Trenches, Huck Finn, Zorro, The Poe Mysteries, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (East Lynne Theater), So Long Pluto (Camino Real Playhouse), From the Earth To the Moon (Actors Shakespeare Company and Tri-State Actors Theatre). For the radio, he has written the documentary Poe: A Celebration, broadcast on NPR and the radio play Cafeteria (Shoestring Radio Theatre). His teleplay "Has Been" was a finalist at the LA Comedy Short Film Festival. He has received commissions from the NJ Theatre Alliance andĀ theĀ  NJ Historical Society. He is the artistic director of the Actors Shakespeare Company, a professional theatre in residence at the Snyder Academy in Elizabeth, NJ. As an actor, he is currently part of the company of The Band's Visit on Broadway.