Versatile, stage-trained lead and supporting player who frequently plays romantically troubled characters. Heard burst on the New York theater scene in the mid-1970s grabbing plum roles in some of the most talked about productions of the decade including "Warp" with Chicago's Organic Theater, Vietnam dramas "G.R. Point" and "Streamers", Iago in a New York Shakespeare production of "Othello", and Broadway productions "Split", "The Glass Menagerie", "Total Abandon", and "The Last Yankee".

Director Joan Micklin Silver cast the youthful Heard in "Between the Lines" (1977), a highly engaging story