Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Delno Ebie has an extensive resume spanning stage, television and film, educational, industrial, CD Rom and commercials. A member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), he has appeared in films such as “Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories” in a starring role as Lt. Price that will air on The History Channel in Spring 2007. Delno has also appeared in films like Walt Disney Pictures “The Haunted Mansion” as a principal Ballroom/Ghost dancer, “Intolerable Cruelty”, and “A Man Apart”. On television he has appeared in episodes of “ER”,“The District” and made-for-broadcast movies “Homeland Security” and “Sarah Plain & Tall: Winter’s End”, as well as the documentary “The 2006 Wichita River Festival” that will air on PBS and was partly produced by his and co-owner Ginger Bynorth’s production company Little Warrior Films, LLC. He has worked with George Clooney, Eddie Murphy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Noah Wiley, Scott Glenn, Campbell Scott, and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award winning sound man Joel Fein, just to name a few.
On stage, Delno has performed in musicals, including “West Side Story” and “The Music Man” for the Crown Uptown Professional Dinner Theatre; “A Doll’s House”, “The Dresser” and Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives Of Windsor” for Wichita Center For The Arts/Irene Vickers Theatre; “Hamlet”, “ The Tempest”, “Burning Blue” and “It’s A Wonderful Life” for Wichita Community Theatre; as well as performing in productions at WSU and Friends University, and Stephen Broker’s Desperate Characters. He was twice nominated for a Mary Jane Teall Award for his roles in “The Tempest” and “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Delno has danced and taught off and on professionally since 1989. In 1997 he was invited to dance at the Miss Kansas Pageant with Miss America, Tara Dawn Holland. Delno is listed in the Internet Movie Data Base, Academy Players Directory and will be featured in celebrity writer C. Elizabeth Lalla’s book “Who’s Who Of Stage And Screen, Vol. Three”. Delno is the proud husband to his beautiful and supporting wife, Valorie, and proud father to his son, Chase Delno Ebie.
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