(September 30 to October 14, 1989) He played a worker in Maxim Gorky's play "Children of the Sun," in a Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival production at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky with William Frankfather (Pavel Fyodorovich Protasov); Tom Luce (Roman); Adale O'Brien (Antonovna); Catherine Christianson (Liza); Bob Burrus (Yegor Rezvov); William McNulty (Boris Nikolayevich Chepurnoy); Beth Dixon (Melanya Nikolayevna Kirpichova); Margaret Gibson (Fima); Ray Fry (Nazar Avdeyevich Vygruzov); Mark Zeisler (Misha); Randy Danson (Yelenda Nikolayevna); V. Craig Heidenreich (Dmitri Sergeyevich Vaghin); Mark Sawyer-Dailey (Yakov Troshin); Connan Morrissey (Avdotya); Margaret Howard (Lukerya); Tom Greenfield (Physician); Steve Bova (Worker); Jeremy Gold (Worker); Josh Liveright (Worker) and Paul Rogers (Worker) in the cast. Zirka Derlycia and Aaron Levin were American adapters. Zirka Derlycia was also translator. Gloria Muzio was director.
He was awarded the 1995 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Fair Maid of the West" at the CT20 Ensemble Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.