In 2018 Roger appeared at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater as Alex Priest (u/s) in Simon Stephens's HEISENBERG and, in 2019, he understudied Saul in THE GREAT LEAP and Charlie in Edward Albee’s SEASCAPE at A.C.T.
He co-authored THE MITZVAH PROJECT, a Holocaust education presentation that he has been touring internationally since 2014. He is also the creator and star of I DIED IN AUSCHWITZ (originally entitled THE OBLIGATION), a full-length, Holocaust-themed one-person play that had its world premiere in the fall of 2017 in San Francisco. I DIED IN AUSCHWITZ had a return engagement in San Francisco in October 2018. He is planning a tour of I DIED IN AUSCHWITZ to begin in 2021.
He co-starred in the premiere episode of the HBO primetime series, VINYL, under the direction of Martin Scorsese and was one of two leads in the short film, ONE GOOD PITCH that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and was an acting student of the late Wynn Handman. He is a veteran theatre, film, TV and voice actor and has appeared in over 70 stage productions in the United States and Europe. In 1983 he co-founded the CASTILLO THEATRE in NYC where he starred in over 45 productions. He has also performed as Otto Frank and J.W. Milam in ANNE & EMMETT, a play that imagines a meeting between Anne Frank and Emmett Till in nine productions since 2011. In May 2018, he performed in a special production of ANNE & EMMETT in Amsterdam. Roger was an ensemble member of the founding theater collective known today as Cal Shakes.