Theatre
Caulfield made his New York City debut in Hot Rock Hotel (1978) after moving from the UK to the United States, and the following year made his stage debut in Class Enemy (1979), in which he bagged the lead role (Players Theatre, West Village); he won a Theatre World Award for his performance. He made his Los Angeles debut in Hitting Town (1980); and took a role in The Elephant Man (1980) the same year, which was when he met Juliet Mills. Caulfield then made his debut Off-Broadway as the amoral titular drifter in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1981).
He made his Broadway debut in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls opposite Siân Phillips. He played opposite Jessica Tandy and Elizabeth Wilson in Salonika at the Public Theatre in New York (appearing fully nude for most of the play). He also appeared in Loot at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.. In 2006 he drew attention for his bare-chested scene in the Off-Broadway two-hander Tryst (see Tryst (drama)), opposite Amelia Campbell. In 2007, Caulfield performed in the Charles Busch play, Our Leading Lady, opposite Kate Mulgrew. The same year he made his West End stage debut as Billy Flynn in the long-running London production of Chicago; he then resumed the roll of Flynn for the Broadway production of Chicago in November 2007. Alongside Lois Robbins, Caulfield - playing the character of Julian Winston - finished up an off-Broadway production of the comedy Cactus Flower (2011).
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