BIO
Television credits include:
Your Friends and Neighbors, Presumed Innocent, Full Circle, Mindhunter, Reprisal, Bring on the Dancing Horses, The Knick, The Deuce, The Blacklist, The Tick, Quarry, Prodigal Son, Snowpiercer, Gotham, Claws, Banshee, Elementary, BrainDead, Turn: Washington's Spies, Unforgettable, Deadbeat, Blue Bloods, White Collar, Boardwalk Empire, Forever, The Carrie Diaries, Smash, Eden (pilot), Army Wives, Bar Karma (pilot), Onion Sportsdome, Onion News Network, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order, Book of Daniel, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He has also voiced many characters for the video games including Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3, as well as the podcast series Electric Easy and Bloodthirsty Hearts.
Film credits include:
Lear Rex, The Bikeriders, Maggie Moore(s), Bad Boys for Life (with Will Smith, Martin Lawrence), Bird Box (with Sandra Bullock, directed by Susanne Bier), X-Men: The New Mutants (with Maisie Williams, directed by Josh Boone), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, Bright (directed by David Ayer, with Will Smith), The Comedian (with Robert DeNiro, directed by Taylor Hackford), Cold In July (with Sam Shepard), Blue Caprice, Going The Distance (with Drew Barrymore), Duplicity (with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, written and directed by Tony Gilroy), Redacted (written and directed by Brian DePalma), Hit Men, Addiction: A 60's Love Story, Brutal Massacre: A Comedy, Winter and the short films Postures and The Magic Circle.
Theatre credits include:
Merchant of Venice on Broadway, The Public Theater, The Old Globe, New York Shakespeare Festival (Delacorte Theatre), Shakespeare Theatre of D.C., Classical Theatre of Harlem, Texas Shakespeare Festival, New York's Promenade Theatre, Bristol Valley Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Brown County Playhouse, Creede Repertory Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, and Shadowland Theatre Company.
Happy received a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Acting from Indiana University. He won numerous awards and scholarships for excellence in Acting, including the 2001 NSAL. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
As an educator, Happy is an acting instructor at the New School and New York Film Academy. He was a Guest Director in 2014 and a Visiting Professor at Ohio Northern University for the 2011 Fall Semester where he taught Voice & Speech, Scene Study, Intro to Acting, Acting 2, Acting for Non-Majors, and led a workshop on Audition Technique for Film & Television. Happy has also taught at the Texas Shakespeare Festival, where he led a monologue workshop and scene study. At New York's Peoples Improv Theater he led a monologue workshop and at New York's Professional Performing Arts School he taught Acting to grades 7-12. Happy has also served an Associate Professor for freshman and sophomore scene study at Indiana University and Teacher's Assistant to Freshman scene study at Ithaca College. He is an SAFD-certified (Society of American Fight Directors) actor combatant and taught stage combat at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.
Theater Directing credits include:
The Importance of Being Earnest (Ohio Northern University), It Came From Below (written by and starring
Meg Anderson, performed at Solocom, The PIT, TaDa Theatre), Ancient History (Ithaca College), In the Boom Boom Room (Indiana University) and Fumed Oak (Ulster Academy of Performing Arts). Happy developed and directed new works for young actors at the Tin Can Fantasy Factory (Ithaca, NY). He served on the Board of Directors for No Bucks Theatre (Ithaca, NY).
Happy has been a private acting coach for over twenty years. He is married to actress and writer Meg Anderson.
Your Friends and Neighbors, Presumed Innocent, Full Circle, Mindhunter, Reprisal, Bring on the Dancing Horses, The Knick, The Deuce, The Blacklist, The Tick, Quarry, Prodigal Son, Snowpiercer, Gotham, Claws, Banshee, Elementary, BrainDead, Turn: Washington's Spies, Unforgettable, Deadbeat, Blue Bloods, White Collar, Boardwalk Empire, Forever, The Carrie Diaries, Smash, Eden (pilot), Army Wives, Bar Karma (pilot), Onion Sportsdome, Onion News Network, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order, Book of Daniel, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and All My Children. He has also voiced many characters for the video games including Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3, as well as the podcast series Electric Easy and Bloodthirsty Hearts.
Film credits include:
Lear Rex, The Bikeriders, Maggie Moore(s), Bad Boys for Life (with Will Smith, Martin Lawrence), Bird Box (with Sandra Bullock, directed by Susanne Bier), X-Men: The New Mutants (with Maisie Williams, directed by Josh Boone), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, Bright (directed by David Ayer, with Will Smith), The Comedian (with Robert DeNiro, directed by Taylor Hackford), Cold In July (with Sam Shepard), Blue Caprice, Going The Distance (with Drew Barrymore), Duplicity (with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts, written and directed by Tony Gilroy), Redacted (written and directed by Brian DePalma), Hit Men, Addiction: A 60's Love Story, Brutal Massacre: A Comedy, Winter and the short films Postures and The Magic Circle.
Theatre credits include:
Merchant of Venice on Broadway, The Public Theater, The Old Globe, New York Shakespeare Festival (Delacorte Theatre), Shakespeare Theatre of D.C., Classical Theatre of Harlem, Texas Shakespeare Festival, New York's Promenade Theatre, Bristol Valley Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Brown County Playhouse, Creede Repertory Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, and Shadowland Theatre Company.
Happy received a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Acting from Indiana University. He won numerous awards and scholarships for excellence in Acting, including the 2001 NSAL. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
As an educator, Happy is an acting instructor at the New School and New York Film Academy. He was a Guest Director in 2014 and a Visiting Professor at Ohio Northern University for the 2011 Fall Semester where he taught Voice & Speech, Scene Study, Intro to Acting, Acting 2, Acting for Non-Majors, and led a workshop on Audition Technique for Film & Television. Happy has also taught at the Texas Shakespeare Festival, where he led a monologue workshop and scene study. At New York's Peoples Improv Theater he led a monologue workshop and at New York's Professional Performing Arts School he taught Acting to grades 7-12. Happy has also served an Associate Professor for freshman and sophomore scene study at Indiana University and Teacher's Assistant to Freshman scene study at Ithaca College. He is an SAFD-certified (Society of American Fight Directors) actor combatant and taught stage combat at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.
Theater Directing credits include:
The Importance of Being Earnest (Ohio Northern University), It Came From Below (written by and starring
Meg Anderson, performed at Solocom, The PIT, TaDa Theatre), Ancient History (Ithaca College), In the Boom Boom Room (Indiana University) and Fumed Oak (Ulster Academy of Performing Arts). Happy developed and directed new works for young actors at the Tin Can Fantasy Factory (Ithaca, NY). He served on the Board of Directors for No Bucks Theatre (Ithaca, NY).
Happy has been a private acting coach for over twenty years. He is married to actress and writer Meg Anderson.