 Armin Shimerman
(Workshop Head)Armin will be teaching:
Shakespeare and Classical Performance at the following locations:
UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television Bio
After graduating from UCLA with a degree in English and a specialization
in Shakespeare, Armin Shimerman apprenticed at the prestigious San Diego
Old Globe Theater and eventually took over the lead comic roles. Armin
went on to work many years on Broadway in \"Three Penny Opera\" at Lincoln
Center, \"St. Joan\" at the Circle in the Square, \"Broadway\" , and finally
Richard Rogers' last musical \"I Remember Mama.\" Regional Theater work
followed including classical plays at Stage West, the American
Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Conn., Vermont Champlain Shakespeare
Festival, Indiana Repertory, Rutgers' Mason Gross Theater, Los Angeles
Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Tyrone Guthrie Theater,
Seattle's ACT, and the San Diego Repertory Theatre's production of \"King
Lear\". He has guest starred in over 80 different TV shows and had major
recurring roles in Beauty and the Beast, Brooklyn Bridge, Invisible Man,
the Handler, Judge Hooper on Boston Legal and, of course, Principal
Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, he is perhaps best known
for his seven years of work as the incorrigible QUARK on Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine. He has been teaching Shakespeare to young people for over
twenty years including seminars and classes at UCLA, Pomona Claremont
college, the High school for the Performing Arts, and Los Angeles
theaters like Theatre 40, Shakespeare at Play, Theatricum Botanicum, the
Antaeus Academy, and Los Angeles Classical Lab. He has published three
novels with Elizabethan themes.He is uniquely qualified to merge actors'
performance techniques with the scholar's intimate knowledge of the
language and the period.
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