As an actor, he has performed in plays on and off-Broadway including The Threepenny Opera at The Roundabout and Curtains (Ensemble Obie Award), Mike Leigh’s 2000 Years, and Mouth to Mouth at The New Group. He wrote and narrated the text for choreographer Charles Moulton’s dance Chickens, performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. Cale has written lyrics for songs including Imitation of a Kiss, which has been sung by Elvis Costello, Deborah Harry, Jimmy Scott and The Jazz Passengers. He was a participant in the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and was writer-in-residence at the 2009 Sundance Theatre Lab. He is the recipient of a Solo Performance Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two NYFA Fellowships. Other show credits include the duet Betwixt with The New Group and The Blue Album, in collaboration with Dael Orlandersmith, at Long Wharf Theatre. He wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music for, and played Floyd in the musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, which premiered at The Goodman Theatre, and went on to receive an Outer Circle Critics Nomination for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical for its production at Playwrights Horizons. His monologues have been featured on Public Radio’s This American Life, NPR’s The Next Big Thing, for which he was a regular contributor, and the HBO Special, Bette Midler’s Mondo Beyondo. His solo work has been presented throughout the U.S, including Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons The Public Theater Second Stage NYTW and The New Group, and venues including Performance Space 122 The Kitchen The Museum of Modern Art, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Kansas City Rep The Goodman Theatre, Chicago and at the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre and Mark Taper Forum’s Taper, Too series, in Los Angeles.

Cale is the author and performer of the solo shows Palomino, for which he won the 2010 SF Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Solo Performance A Likely Story Lillian (Obie Award) and Deep in a Dream of You (Bessie Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement), as well as Somebody Else’s House, Smooch Music, and The Redthroats (Bessie Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement), which he performed at The Studio Theatre. Living in New York City he began to write his own songs, which evolved into dramatic monologues that often incorporated live music. At the age of twenty he immigrated to America.

Cale began his career as a singer with local rock bands, subsequently performing standards in pubs and singing Gershwin and Irving Berlin songs on the London Underground.

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