Stass Klassen

Stass Klassen is an international theatre, film, and TV actor working on three continents with most talented actors and directors. He has starred in dozens of Film and TV productions, such as The Comey Rule (2020) (USA), as President Putin; The Blacklist (2013) (USA); The Detour (2016); Comedy Central's A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump (2019) (USA); The Americans (2013) (USA); Ekaterina (2014) (Russia) as Friedrich the Great, King of Prussia; Insomnia (2018) (USA); Smertelniy nomer (2021) (Russia) as Col. von Kallenberg; Return to the Hiding Place (2013) (USA); Roads to Olympia (2019) (USA); The Optimists (2017) (Russia); Saka: The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib (2016) (India), as C.M. King, the British governor of Lahore, in a Bollywood period piece; The Kitchen (2012) (Russia); Londongrad (2015) (Russia); Escape from Tomorrow (2013) (Sundance 2013, USA); Regretting Fish (2011) (Williamsburg IFF, New York); Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior (2009) (USA); as well as in other productions for major TV networks in USA and Russia. He has also been a producer and lead actor at the New York Art Theatre, an Off-Broadway Theatre Company in New York City. Among his 20+ theatre credits are the title roles in Off-Broadway productions of "Something Cloudy, Something Clear" by Tennessee Williams; "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "Counting The Ways" by Edward Albee; as well as the appearance in the Metropolitan Opera production of The Nose (2014) directed by William Kentridge at Lincoln Center, New York City. He toured internationally with all-male production of "Romeo & Juliet" (as Juliet & Benvolio; British tour), and "City Of Mice" (European tour: Hamburg, Barcelona, Hanover, etc.). His other New York theatre credits include Arthur Schnitzler's "Professor Bernhardi"; "The Fall" by Albert Camus; Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"; "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov; Heinrich von Kleist's "The Broken Jug"; "Too Clever By Half"; "Lt. Nants"; etc. Stass Klassen studied Theatre in Hamburg, Hanover, New York City, and Moscow, receiving MFA in acting from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (Moscow). At the New York Art Theatre (New York City), he collaborated with director Anatole Fourmantchouk on many productions in NYC & internationally. He directed a one woman show "Me, Myself, and Anna" and co-directed "My Poor Marat" for the Voyage Theatre Company (NYC).