“Beaming and suave Alfred C. Kemp coolly switches from gladhanding to menacing as the regal Morty.”
AlfredC. Kemp
Stage·TV·Film·Voice
- AEA
- SAG-AFTRA
- 6′2″
- Bass
- Avenue B Talent
Actor · New York
Photo: Ted Ely
- Awake and Sing! · Off-Broadway
- Law & Order: Organized Crime
- Jeff Award Winner
- Steppenwolf
- The Goodman
- Visionaries
- Chicago Shakespeare
- American Players Theatre
- Helen Hayes Nominee
- Indie Series Award Nominee
Press
“A regal predator cloaked in benevolence.”
“Alfred C. Kemp strides through the production with the easy confidence of a man accustomed to commanding rooms—and people. As Morty, Kemp’s beaming geniality conceals an undertow of threat; he glides from smooth-talking benefactor to quietly coercive power broker with chilling ease. His transformation is so fluid, so urbane, that one almost misses the moral rot beneath the polish.”
Tony Marinelli, Theatre Beyond Broadway on Uncle Morty in Awake and Sing!, Sea Dog Theater, Off-Broadway
“Alfred C. Kemp’s Morty is larger than life and convincingly crooked.”
“A hustling conjure man with sinister, clear articulated menace.”
DC Theater SceneSoaphead Church
The Bluest EyeHelen Hayes Award Nominee · Best Ensemble
The Bluest EyeHelen Hayes Award Nominee · Best Ensemble
“The silky-voiced Alfred Kemp”
Chris JonesChicago Tribune
Blues for an Alabama SkyJeff Award Winner · Outstanding Supporting Actor
Blues for an Alabama SkyJeff Award Winner · Outstanding Supporting Actor
“Nearly stealing the show with his sensitive, unforced performance.”
Barbara VitelloDaily Herald
Blues for an Alabama SkyJeff Award Winner · Outstanding Supporting Actor
Blues for an Alabama SkyJeff Award Winner · Outstanding Supporting Actor
“The excellent Alfred Kemp”
Photography by Ted Ely
Headshots
Reels & clips
See the work
Dramatic and comedic reels, plus on-camera clips, are on his Actors Access profile.
Watch on Actors AccessSelected
Credits
Film
- RevelationLeaddir. Libe Barer
Television
- Law & Order: Organized CrimeCo-StarNBC / dir. Stephen Surjik
- B.I.G. Love Sunday SchoolZach (Series Lead)UMC / Earnhardt Pirkle, Inc.
New Media
- VisionariesSeasons 2–3 · Indie Series Award nominee, Best EnsembleSeries RegularShowrunner Richard Seneque
- Awake and Sing!Off-Broadway, 90th Anniversary RevivalUncle MortySea Dog Theater / dir. Erwin Maas
- MacbethRossThe Curtain Theatre / dir. Sean Hagerty
- The Bodyguard: The MusicalDevaneyTheatre by the Sea / dir. Christopher Campbell
- Blues for an Alabama SkyJeff AwardGuy JacobsEclipse Theatre Co. / dir. Steven Fedoruk
- The Bluest EyeHelen Hayes Award nomination, Best EnsembleSoaphead ChurchTheater Alliance / dir. David Muse
- RuinedNew Stages SeriesFortuneThe Goodman Theatre / dir. Kate Whoriskey
- Voyeurs de VenusWorld PremiereBookerChicago Dramatists / dir. Russ Tutterow
- Execution of JusticeSister Boom Boom (u/s)About Face Theatre / dir. Gary Griffin
- Take Me OutMidwest PremiereDarren Lemming (u/s)Steppenwolf / About Face / dir. Eric Rosen
- A Season in the CongoPatrice LumumbaTimeLine Theatre Company
- ProofHal (u/s)The Goodman Theatre / dir. Chuck Smith
- A Tale of Two CitiesDeFargeSteppenwolf / dir. Jessica Thebus
- Richard IIBagotChicago Shakespeare / dir. Barbara Gaines
- King LearKing of FranceAmerican Players Theatre
- PericlesPericles (u/s)American Players Theatre
Awards
- Jeff AwardOutstanding Supporting ActorBlues for an Alabama Sky
- Black Theatre Alliance AwardNomination, Sidney Poitier Best Leading Actor in a DramaBlues for an Alabama Sky
- Helen Hayes AwardNomination, Best EnsembleThe Bluest Eye
- Indie Series AwardNomination, Best Ensemble, Audio FictionVisionaries (2024)
Training
- Northwestern UniversityB.S., Acting
- BGB StudiosLos AngelesAdvanced On-CameraCasting Director Risa Bramon Garcia
- David DeSantosLos AngelesOn-Camera Coaching, weeklyPrivate coaching
- Heidi Marshall StudioFilm/TV Acting & AuditioningHeidi Marshall
- The Barrow GroupMeisner / Scene StudyNew York
- Atlantic Acting SchoolLab Technique I, II, IIINew York
Special skills: hosting with extensive teleprompter experience, voiceover, green screen, improvisation, soccer, tennis, comfortable with animals and puppets, modeling. Licensed driver (MA). U.S. passport.
About
From Chicago’s great ensemble stages to Off-Broadway and network television.
Alfred C. Kemp is a New York stage, television, film and voice actor and a member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. He most recently played Uncle Morty in the Off-Broadway 90th anniversary revival of Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! at Sea Dog Theater, directed by Erwin Maas. On screen he has appeared on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime and as the lead in Libe Barer’s film Revelation, and he is a series regular on the Indie Series Award–nominated audio drama Visionaries.
Much of his stage work has been in Chicago, at Steppenwolf, the Goodman, TimeLine, Chicago Shakespeare and Chicago Dramatists, along with seasons at American Players Theatre. His Guy Jacobs in Blues for an Alabama Sky earned a Jeff Award, and he shared a Helen Hayes nomination with the ensemble of The Bluest Eye in Washington, D.C. He trained at Northwestern University and continues on-camera training with Casting Director Risa Bramon Garcia at BGB Studios and in weekly on-camera coaching with actor David DeSantos.
Jeff AwardOutstanding Supporting Actor
AEA · SAGFull member, both unions
NorthwesternB.S., Acting
Contact
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Representation
Avenue B Talent
New York · (917) 734-4950
Email
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