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He has enjoyed a professional career ranging from cabaret and dinner theatre to regional theatre, and rôles ranging from “Sidney Bruhl” in Deathtrap (which he has also directed) to “Victor” in Noel Coward’s Private Lives and “Jerry/Daphne” in Sugar!, the musical version of Some Like It Hot. Since moving to Orlando, Mr. Sutton has appeared frequently with Orlando Shakes, including its nine-hour-plus staging of Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby and the world premiere of The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge. The Orlando Sentinel named him “Best Actor in a Drama” for his performance in Orlando Shakes’ The Luckiest People.

Favorite rôles include “Don Quixote” in Man of La Mancha, “Scrooge” in A Christmas Carol, and the title rôle in Sherlock Holmes.

Mr. Sutton’s solo play about Thomas Jefferson, Twilight at Monticello, has been presented off- Broadway and at venues throughout "the original 13", including Philadelphia's historic Carpenters' Hall. A half-hour version, A Brief Encounter with Thomas Jefferson was selected by the Florida Humanities Council for its 30th anniversary tour of eight Florida communities.

A hour-long play about botanist, artist, and explorer William Bartram, Puc Puggy’s Travels in Florida was commissioned by FHC and has toured extensively throughout the state. An expanded version of this script, tracing Bartram’s travels from Florida to the Cherokee Mountains of North Carolina and the banks of the Mississippi, has been presented throughout the southeast, and has been a featured performance at the Cullowhee (N.C.) Native Plant Conference and at Gatlinburg’s Great Smoky Mountain Wildflower Festival.

His most recent play,  Jefferson & Jupiter, about Jefferson and Jupiter Evans, the slave he was raised with, was named Critics’ Choice for Best Drama at the Orlando International Fringe Festival.

He and his wife, Amy (who is also the play’s costumer) share their Central Florida home with their “furry children,” all of which are rescued.