Borba served seven seasons as artistic director and eight seasons as CTC’s associate artistic director and spent a total of 18 seasons with Chautauqua Theater Company. He will be appearing in the upcoming film “Unstoppable” and has recently been a Lunt Fontanne fellow and directed Julius Caesar for The New Swan Shakespeare Festival.
Previously for CTC he directed Commedia!, One Man, Two Guvnors, As You Like It, Noises Off, The Taming of the Shrew, After Love, The Comedy of Errors, The Philadelphia Story, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Swimming Thru Abu Dhabi, and Carve as well as the inter-arts collaborations in the Amphitheater: Mango Suite, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Ellis Island, and Go West! As an actor at CTC, he has appeared in Building the Wall, Our Town, Arcadia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, The Just, All My Sons, Frankenstein, and Dracula.
As an actor and director outside of CTC, Borba has worked at theaters around the country, including South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, The Globe Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (five seasons), Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, The Long Wharf, Detroit Public Theater, PlayMakers Repertory, and others. On film, he has appeared in small parts in big films and big parts in small films and has had recurring and guest appearances on over 35 television series. Most recently, he can be sneered at as CEO/bad guy Phillip Corwin on Amazon’s Bosch: Legacy TV series. Borba is a graduate of Brown University and New York University. He lives in Los Angeles and is head of acting and a professor of Drama at UC Irvine.