eric hissom
actor - director - playwright
Recent Reviews
"Eric Hissom, well-known for his masterful performances, brings us a Menenius full of ruefulness, sarcasm, and fatherly affection. When Coriolanus harangues the mob, Menenius becomes a kind of James Carville of the ancient world, desperately attempting to help the candidate measure up."
-Sophia Howles, DC Theater Arts
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"Eric Hissom is very good as the senator Menenius Agrippa in explaining the dilemma, particularly in the famous “stomach” speech that describes the strata of an early democracy.."
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nov 23 - dec 29, 2024
death on the nile
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Hana S. Sharif
Arena Stage, Washington DC
jan 28 - march 16, 2025
job
By Max Wolf Friedlich
Signature Theatre
Arlington, VA
Directed by Matthew Gardiner
"Hissom’s performance is a wonderfully fluid account of Watson: He’s loose and deceptively low-key yet wound tight enough to snap..."- The Washington Post
"Author/Director Eric Hissom has given us a fine taste of good theater..." - Peter Bergman, The Berkshire Edge
"Hissom succeeds in convincing us, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he IS a Bengal Tiger...."- Theater Review Gazette.Net
Current
erichissom@aol.com
407-579-7570
A true repertory actor, credited with a wide range of roles, Eric has appeared in theatres all over the country, and in film and television. He is also a director and playwright, most recently having directed the world premiere of his play, Rude Mechanics, at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York.