Career

Television

The Magicians (2015 – 2020)

Hale’s Role: Eliot Waugh (seasons 1-3, 5); the monster (season 4)
Network: Syfy
Rating: TV-MA (Uncensored)
Starring: Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor-Dudley, Arjun Gupta, Summer Bishil
Summary: After being recruited to a secretive academy, a group of students discover that the magic they read about as children is very real-and more dangerous than they ever imagined.
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Smash (2012)

Hale’s Role: Zach (2 episodes)
Network: NBC
Rating: TV-14
Also Starring: Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee
Summary: There is more drama behind the scenes than on stage, as the team prepares an ambitious Broadway musical on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
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Films

Private Romeo (2011)

Hale’s Role: Josh Neff / Mercutio / Capulet
Release: June 20, 2011
Genre: Drama, Romance
Also Starring: Matt Doyle, Sean Hudock, Charlie Barnett
Summary: A modern take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set at an isolated all-boys military academy, it follows the forbidden relationship between two cadets.
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Pedro (2008)

Hale’s Role: Judd Winick
Release: April 1, 2009
Genre: Drama
Also Starring: Alex Loynaz, Justina Machado, DaJuan Johnson, Jenn Liu
Summary: A screen adaptation of Pedro Zamora’s life: his childhood in Havana, immigration to the U.S., work as an AIDS activist, appearance on The Real World, and his remaining days.
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Teeth (2007)

Hale’s Role: Tobey Cobb
Release: January 18, 2008
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Also Starring: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais
Summary: Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
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Beautiful Ohio (2006)

Hale’s Role: Elliot
Release: November 10, 2006
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Also Starring: William Hurt, Rita Wilson, Brett Davern, Michelle Tratchenberg
Summary: A quiet family drama focusing on two young brothers as it explores the elaborate family dynamics and rapidly-evolving social attitudes during the dawn of the 1970s.
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Short Films

Coldwater Canyon (2015)

Hale’s Role: David Monroe
Run Time: 8 Minutes
Genre: Drama, Noir
Also Starring: Hallie Cooper-Novack
Summary: A videographer gets more than he bargains for on a late night Craigslist gig for an actress needing a monologue shot that night.
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Jagoo (2012)

Hale’s Role: Sam
Run Time: 17 Minutes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Also Starring: Ana Kayne, Greta Gerwig, Elliot Villar
Summary: Elodie connects with a charismatic stranger in a Williamsburg bar and follows him back to his apartment—what happens next challenges expectations.
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Oysters Rockefeller (2012)

Hale’s Role: Gibbon Pearl
Run Time: 12 Minutes
Genre: Comedy
Also Starring: Susan Jeffries, Kate Weiman, Sarah Burkhalter
Summary: Gibbon Pearl, raised by his overprotective mother and aunt, has never been allowed outside. On the anniversary of his grandfather’s death, he meets Lucy, and falls instantly in love.
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Theatre

The Last Goodbye

Hale’s Role: Mercutio
Performance Dates: September 22 – November 3, 2013
Theatre: The Old Globe
Summary: A musical fusing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with some the songs of the late rock icon Jeff Buckley. That light in yonder window is still the east and Juliet is still the sun… but the sound in her bedchamber is all new.
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Moonchildren

Hale’s Role: Bob
Performance Dates: June 28 – July 16, 2011
Theatre: Berkshire Theatre Festival
Summary: Moonchildren is a play by Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Weller. The play chronicles a year in the life of the “moonchildren” referred to in the title: eight college students living communally together in an off-campus attic in the mid-1960s.
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Passion Play

Hale’s Role: Jesus
Performance Dates: May 12 – June 5, 2010
Theatre: Irondale Theatre Center
Summary: An exploration of the relationships between religion, performance, and life. Passion Play takes us behind the scenes of three communities—in Queen Elizabeth’s England, Hitler’s Germany, and Reagan’s America—attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ.
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Paradise Lost

Hale’s Role: Ben Gordon
Performance Dates: February 27 – March 20, 2010
Theatre: American Repertory Theatre
Summary: Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost show the shattered dreams of an American family in a sinking economy. A poetic, humane, and distinctly American drama that examines the impact of money and greed on family, business, and love.
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Streamers

Hale’s Role: Richie
Performance Dates: November 11, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Theatre: Laura Pels Theatre
Summary: Streamers,the third in David Rabe’s quartet of “Vietnam Plays,” is set in the Army barracks housing a group of young men. The “streamers” of the title: hapless parachutists who streak to certain death when their parachutes fail to open.
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