Actor/Playwright. AEA/DGA
Born in New Rochelle NY, Mr. Love has worked as a professional actor (A.E.A.) for over 35 years in a number of stage productions. Among them: "A Tribute to Scott Joplin" (written & directed by Laurence Holder), "Blood Knot", "Suicide in B-flat", "A Raisin in the Sun", "King Hedley II", "Fences", "Gospel At Colonus" & "The Piano Lesson" (directed by Patdro Harris) (Black Theatre Troupe, Phoenix AZ), "My Children! My Africa!" (Actors' Lab, Scottsdale AZ), "Confessional" - a one-man play written and directed by former Negro Ensemble playwright Gus Edwards (The Working Theatre, New York, NY), "The Merchant of Venice" and "Julius Caesar" (Southwest Shakespeare), "All's Well That Ends Well" (w/ Michael Learned) and "Othello" (Shakespeare Sedona), "The Essential Henry V", "A Christmas Carol" & "White Picket Fence" (Actors Theatre of Phx), "The Comedy of Errors" (New Stage Theatre, Jackson MS), "Shadowlands" & "Much Ado About Nothing" (w/ Lauren Tewes) (AZ Theatre Company), "Amadeus" (w/ Richard Gilliland) and "Miss Evers' Boys" (Phoenix Theatre), "August in April" (Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez AK), "Macbeth (Voices of Evil)" (Theatre Artists Studio), "Boesman & Lena" (dir. by Walter Dallas, ASU Theatre/Black Theatre Troupe). He spent 2 years at Childsplay, performing in - among other productions - "La Masquerada de la VIda" which had a run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mr. Love has also served on theater panels for the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
As a playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild, he has had readings/productions of a number of 10 minute plays. His full length play "Black River" was given a reading at the Phoenix Theatre New Works Festival, Phoenix AZ in 2009. His full-length play "Default" was read at the Valdez Theatre Conference, Valdez AK in June 2021. "Default" also received a virtual reading sponsored by the Dramatists Guild for their DG Footlights 2020 Virtual Reading Series. His play "Moonlight Over L.A." was part of the Connect Virtual Reading Series, 5/2020. "The Losing End", a sequel to "Default", received a Zoom reading by Merely Writers/Merely Players, Atlanta GA on 9/2022. "Black Fire" was also read by Merely Writers/Merely Players, 5/2023. "Dance Into Night" was read by Merely Writers/Merely Players in 2024.