We’re introducing the cast of Jasper’s 5th annual Play Right Series winning play, Busted Open, directed by Jane Turner Peterson. You’ve met Ella Riley, Zanna Mills, Beth DeHart, Kristin Cobb, and Allison Allgood already. Now meet Clayton King who plays the role of Phil in this brand new play written by SC playwright Ryan Stevens.
Join us at Columbia Music Festival Association on Sunday afternoon, September 14th at 3 pm for the premiere staged reading of this fresh new theatre art! Tickets are only $10 and are on sale now!
Clayton King (Phil) is excited to be part of the Jasper Project play Busted Open. He is a Texas transplant, calling Columbia home for more than a decade. Both a producer and performer, Clayton has more than 75 stage credits to his name and has performed with Midlands Light Opera Society, Broadway Bound Vista Theatre Project, Chapin Community Theatre, Town Theatre, Trustus, Village Square, and Workshop Theatre. Some credits include Pirates of Penzance (Major General Stanley), Secret Garden (Neville), Shrek (Shrek), Into the Woods (Baker), She Loves Me! (Mr. Maraczek); Mamma Mia! (Harry Bright), Arsenic and Old Lace (Teddy), You Can’t Take It With You (Kohlenkov), The Addams Family (Gomez), Guys & Dolls (Nathan Detroit). Clayton was voted Best Actor in the Free-Times Best of Columbia who noted “[Clayton is] a vocal powerhouse who can handle both comedic and dramatic roles with aplomb.”
Before leaving Texas Clayton appeared on stage in productions of Damn Yankees and Chicago at Galveston’s historic The Grand 1894 Opera House, A Fiddler on the Roof at the historic Strand Street Theatre and The Wind and the Willows at Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars.
In addition to character roles on stage, Clayton is a prolific cabaret performer in venues along the Texas Gulf (of Mexico!) coast and across the Midlands. He cut his teeth in this medium while attending the University of Houston and developed his artistry with small venue performance in such notable cabaret spots as Houston’s Baha Sams and the unlikely-named Million Dollar Dump. When not in a production or working at his “day job” as Parish Administrator at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal church, he balances his dual alter egos: 1) a singer as one of ten cabaret artists who perform in The Monthly After Dinner Cabaret, a series he and Vicky Saye [Henderson] produce under the banner of King Henderson Productions, which will relaunch in October, 2025. 2) A jewelry and home accessory designer. Both feed his soul and provide a certain type of therapy in these trying times.
