 His theatre credits include "Romeo & Juliet" (The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.), "Kidding Jane" (Portland Stage Company), "Macbeth" (Pittsburgh Public Theater), "As Bees in Honey Drown" (Hangar Theater, Ithaca, New York), and "The French" (HB Playwrights Foundation, NYC) among others.In the spring of 2007, while working as a recurring character on "30 Rock", he shot an ABC pilot called "Judy's Got A Gun".It was not picked up for the Fall 2007 season, and Powell returned to "30 Rock", where he was promoted to a series regular.