Anderson often wonders what it is like to be
bored.
He could never have known that playing a singing Heathcliff from Emile Bronte’s Wuthering Heights would have sparked his passion for vocal performance. Wuthering Heights was Wells’s first show after leaving sunny Florida and his last show before becoming a full-time acting major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). During his time at UMBC, Wells played a range of roles including a crazed doctor in The Imaginary Autopsee, a rock star drag queen in Noise Pollution: The Judofist Story, and the Baker in Into the Woods. A three-time nominee for the KCACTF Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship, Wells was very clear and determined in his desire to become an actor. But, in his journey, he also developed a love for a Cappella music. Wells sang background vocals and solos for four different groups, directed two of those groups, and arranged forty-seven songs by the time he graduated. Wells began to learn safer and stronger ways of singing which became very helpful with his primary collegiate group, the UMBC Cleftomaniacs.
Wells continued to find a variety of talents during his college career. He wrote, co-wrote, and directed scenes, monologues, and plays and spent two summers coaching children in theatre. His involvement as an actor in The Laramie Project along with being enrolled in courses on gender and social protest in theatre helped him discover a passion for social politics. He began to see more clearly where he fit in American society as a young, gay, black man.
Wells spent the his first year after graduation working as an apprentice for the Education Department at Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. He is now working as Studio Theatre's Associate Education Manager while taking classes at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and has been actively performing in D.C. area plays.
Wells continued to find a variety of talents during his college career. He wrote, co-wrote, and directed scenes, monologues, and plays and spent two summers coaching children in theatre. His involvement as an actor in The Laramie Project along with being enrolled in courses on gender and social protest in theatre helped him discover a passion for social politics. He began to see more clearly where he fit in American society as a young, gay, black man.
Wells spent the his first year after graduation working as an apprentice for the Education Department at Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. He is now working as Studio Theatre's Associate Education Manager while taking classes at the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and has been actively performing in D.C. area plays.