Aldo Billingslea
RTE Member since 2005
Advisory Board Member

Bio
Aldo joined the RTE board in January 2005. He earned his B.A. in English and Communication Arts at Austin College, his M.A. in Secondary Education with a Theatre and English emphasis at Austin College, and his M.F.A. in Acting at Southern Methodist University. A member of Actor's Equity Association and the Screen Actor's Guild, Billingslea has appeared in productions of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson and Two Trains Running; Eugene Oneill's The Hairy Ape; Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire; and more than twenty different plays by William Shakespeare. Aldo has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Marin Theatre Company, The Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and Z Space. He has also worked at Portland Center Stage, Portland Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Actor's Guild, Sacramento Theatre Company, Plano Repertory Theatre, Theatre Three in Dallas, San Antonio's Majestic Theatre, Oasis Theatre Company in Buffalo, San Diego's Old Globe Theater, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas and he spent seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. During the day, Aldo is the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University.