Warden comes from a prestigious acting background, and you can tell. Educated in New York City at the American Musical and Dramatic Agency, he had appeared in productions of Our Country's Good, Room Service, Hamlet and Waiting for Godot, and the film Woman On Top, and it's probably only because he had nothing better to do that he appeared in No Nude Men's first production, Edward II, playing the somewhat thankless role of Mortimer the Elder. Emerging from a several year acting hiatus, once Warden got started again he couldn't stop, next getting cast in the Thunderbird Theater production Night of Terror, and then the Noel Williams production The Blonde at the Party, before returning to No Nude Men to originate two roles in shows of mine: first as a cowardly but empathetic General in Troijka and then as the foul-mouthed washed-up-rocker-with-a-heart-of-gold, Malcolm Moliere, in Love Egos Alternative Rock. He next returned to appear in our production of Love's Labors Lost, where he played an equally foul-mouthed but ultimately bittersweet Costard and most recently he joined us at the 2006 San Francisco Theater Festival to play the evil Thenardier in our thirty minute version of Les Miserables. His first stint in the Bay Area One Acts Festival, in the play Peaches En Raglia, later landed him in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he recreated his role all through August of 2004 while also appearing in the play Bang!, running simultaneously in rep, and indulging in his other favorite past time, drinking. For me, this best sums up Warden, and the experience of working with him. An all around amiable sort, he's the kind of guy who is always up for a pint or a party, and yet never misses a rehearsal and can somehow juggle a job, a girlfriend, and an acting career, all with equal finesse. He is the kindest soul in the world, to boot, and listens when you need an ear, and never fails to bring something tasty to a dinner party- plus he can kick you butt at stage combat. Honestly and truly, I've loved all the work he's done for me, from Edward II on down, but his best acting to date was in a production of Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, where he finally got to shine in a leading role, and stopped me from killing myself every night as we all crowded into the world's tiniest dressing room. Warden shined from beginning to end in that show, blossoming even in rehearsal conditions I considered fairly close to intolerable at times, and remaining the consummate profession no matter what. It's no surprise he's continued to work steadily since, appearing in another year of the Bay One Acts Festival, this time playing an evil clown in the play Big Fun, and popping up as Cletis in Lone Star with the Main Street Theater, and The Twilight Zone with Impossible Productions. Like almost everyone else I know in San Francisco, he has a role in the independent film, Alice in Storage Land, but probably more than anyone else I know in San Francisco, he really deserves to be a star. He's the last person who would let it go to his head, and the first person I would really be able to say without qualification, "I knew him way back when, and yes, he got to where he is by being the best he could be, every step of the way."