Russell appeared onstage in Huntington's
The Last Hurrah. Other stage credits include
The Life of Galileo (
Underground Railway Theater),
The Bottom of the Lake (Tir Na Theatre),
Daughter of Venus (Boston Playwrights' Theatre),
A Pinter Duet,
A House With No Walls,
White People (New Repertory Theatre),
And Then There Were None,
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Stoneham Theatre), ''Talley's Folly'' (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston), and more than two dozen productions with the Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theatre (WHAT), including
The Beauty Queen of Leenane and the Eliott Norton Award-winning production of
A New War. He is the author of 13 plays for young audiences and won the 2009 WHAT Award for Sustained Artistic Excellence. The decision upset some fans of the series, who initiated an online petition requesting Eidos-Montréal to bring back Russell as lead voice actor. ==Personal life==