Oz Phillips

Phillips was born into a hardworking blue collar family in the small industrial town of Methuen Massachusetts, about twenty miles north of Boston. After receiving an academic scholarship to Phillips Andover and receiving degrees in International Relations and Spanish from Lake Forest College, Oz enjoyed a very successful career as a radio personality. After leaving radio, Phillips began his formal acting training with Wynn Handman in New York in 1998. At the 2002 Venice Film Festival he was cited for his strong performance in the Kafka film trilogy, K (2002). Phillips is teaming up with director Shoja Azarri again, this time as a co-writer and actor in the feature film "Converted" which takes place in a small rural town in the southern United States and Herat, Afghanistan. In Converted, Phillips portrays an American evangelist preacher who is placed in charge of an American mission in Afghanistan. In the film 'Whippersnapper', Phillips is annoyed with a culturally devoid and greedy Hollywood movie industry as he plays "Fred", an idealistic film festival director. Phillps recently played a struggling heroin addict in the play Ultralight at the Portland Stage Company (Sept. 2003). Other notable roles have included Macbeth (Waterloo Bridge Theater, New York) the half sevant Frederick in Gravity (Ohio Theater, New York) and Cowboy Bob, (29th Street Rep., New York)