His first major breakthrough occurred in 1961 in "The Blacks," Jean Genet's long-running Off-Broadway play.

He appeared in the Off-Broadway play, Regrets, by Matt Charman.

That was followed by nearly a year in another Off-Broadway play, James Lee's Career.

He has produced several Off-Broadway plays and musicals and is a faculty member at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.

In "Bridge and Tunnel," Sarah Jones's current Off-Broadway play, she impersonates a series of immigrants performing at a poetry slam in south Queens.

Isherwood described the Off-Broadway play as a "show about matters of the heart and matters of the closet" in The New York Times.

Spring of 2007, Valerie performed in the Off-Broadway play, "Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell."

Minaj wanted to become an actress, and in 2001, she was cast in the Off-Broadway play, "In Case You Forget".

Stone also portrayed vampire Barnabas Collins in a 1988 Off-Broadway play of Dark Shadows.

His sixth film, "Irma Vep" (no relation to the Off-Broadway play), spun him in a thoroughly new direction, improvisational and light-hearted.