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HAIR COLOR: Brown
VOCAL RANGE: (IF ANY): Baritone
UNION AFFILIATION (IF ANY): AEA, SAG-AFTRA
BIOGRAPHY:
Ken Simon* has been crushed to death by a giant crab claw (Manifestations); pole-danced in his skivvies (Richard Foreman’s Classical Therapy); fought atomic zombies (Gemini Collisionworks' Ten Nights in a Bar-Room); been William Shatner 3 times (Dysfunctional Theater's I Am Star Trek) and a “chickenhead” (Isadore in UTC #61's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). Other works include Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, Vaclav Havel’s The Memo, Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Measure for Measure, Saint Joan, and Waiting for Giovanni at The Flea Theater. Ken also adapted, produced, co-directed, and performed in Bunny Lake Is Missing at The Brick Theater.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
McCaskill Studios, NYC: Celia Schaefer, Rob McCaskill
The Barrow Group, NYC: Eric Paeper
The Acting Studio, NYC: James Price
Writing & Solo Performance, NYC: Kirsten Ames
School of Film & Television, NYC: Richard Omar
Voiceovers, NYC: Shelly Shenoy, Melissa Gray
AMDA, NYC
SUNY/Stony Brook, MA in English
Brandeis University, BA in English cum laude
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Improv, writing (play, sketch, solo), impersonations (eg, Homer Simpson, Eric Cartman, Charles Nelson Reilly, Columbo [Peter Falk], Mary Tyler Moore crying, etc), accents (eg, Jewish old man, Cockney, Brooklyn Italian, Southern, etc), baritone, basic stage combat.