Hobo Heyseus filmed in Schodack

A Native (Albany) New Yorker

A cosmopolitan New York City actor known for daring roles in edgy films, Theodore Bouloukos returns to his Capital Region roots to play a gentle pastor

by Ann Morrow on July 18, 2013 · 0 comments

Actor Theodore Bouloukos is every inch a New Yorker: erudite, meticulously cultured, and almost famous within an avant-garde career. So quintessentially Manhattan is this sharp-dressed man that he was profiled in New York magazine for a series called The Locals (his locale was Carnegie Hill).

Theodore Bouloukos on the set, photo by Nathaniel Kramer

Yet Bouloukos is actually an Albanian. Born in the capital city and educated at Albany Academyfor Boys, he began his first career here, as an arts journalist, and in 1986, he launched his own literary magazine, The Albany Review. But feeling that his artistic sophistication was getting the cold shoulder from the area—the Reviewended in 1990—Bouloukos relocated to New York and made it his adoptive home. He earned a degree in art history from Columbia, did book reviews for People magazine, wrote an article on art auctions for The Wall Street Journal, and was a contributor to ultra-cosmopolitan Index magazine. 

Later this winter, Bouloukos can be seen locally in Hobo Heyseus, a philosophical comedy from Albany director Jon Cring and Troy screenwriter Joshua Owens. Bouloukos plays Pastor Ron, the story’s “ecclesiastical compass,” and a parish leader who comes into conflict with Heyseus, a messianic hobo (played by another New York indie actor, Raymond Turturro). The film was shot in Schodack and Kinderhook in May.

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