"Ken Simon (demonstrates) an extraordinary level of skill...beautifully acted."
—Hi Drama on the world premiere of the NYC play Linguish
"Brilliant."
—L Magazine on Simon's performance in Linguish
"Ken Simon is sleazily believable as the attorney wooing Harry’s wife.."
—Time Out New York on Simon's performance in the 2008 NYC revival of Harry in Love
"Hilarious stylized comedy (is) quite wonderful, balancing the dexterous wordplay that pervades every moment of the piece—it's a Foreman play!—and the rapid-fire, and often dangerous-seeming, physicality."
—nytheatre.com on Simon's performance in the 2008 NYC revival of Harry in Love
"(Simon) has a grand old time breathing life into such personalities as William Shatner...it’s pure theater delivered in an aggressively physical staging that leaves you breathless."
—nytheatre.com on the NYC play I Am Star Trek
"Fearless and fresh and passionately committed."
—nytheatre.com on Simon's performance in the NYC play Antony and Cleopatra
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Email: ksim43@hotmail.com |
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Stats: Height: 5'7, Hair: Brown, Eyes: Hazel; Weight: 160 |
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Film |
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The Land Before AIDS |
Doctor Parasaurolophus |
Independent, Fletcher Wolff dir. |
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One Last Drag |
Bill Wilanski |
Kaz Productions |
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Whacked |
Undercover cop |
Independent, Emine Yildrimer dir. |
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Men—What Can You Do? |
Ken |
Independent, Brian McLane dir. |
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Multiple feature screenplays (readings) |
Lead |
NYScreenwriters.org/Manhattan Theatre Club CC |
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NYC Theatre |
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Harry In Love |
Wasselman |
The Brick Theatre |
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Q&A: The Perception of Dawn (world premiere) |
Garry Broheim |
The Brick Theatre |
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World Gone Wrong (revival) |
Thomas Arnold |
The Brick Theatre |
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365 Plays/365 Days |
Multiple roles |
The Gene Frankel Theatre |
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Ian W. Hill's Hamlet |
Multiple roles |
The Brick Theatre |
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The Memo (world premiere Havel translation) |
Ken Masat |
Ohio Theatre |
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I Am Star Trek |
Captain Kirk/William Shatner |
Henry St. Settlement and The Kraine |
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Crime and Punishment |
Nikolay |
Perry Street Theater |
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Venom |
Man at gunpoint |
Ubu Repertory Theatre |
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Rhinoceros |
Mr. Papillon |
The Connelly |
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French Conversation Lessons (workshop) |
Ensemble |
Jean Cocteau Repertory |
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Loveliest Afternoon of the Year |
He |
The Kraine |
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Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday |
Andrew |
The Kraine |
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Larry and the Werewolf |
Wolfgang Biedermann |
NADA |
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room |
Simon Slade |
NADA |
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Classical Therapy (English language world premiere) |
Leo |
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May Day (workshop) |
Sol Binder |
Ensemble Studio Theatre |
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Subversive Superheroes vs. the Gentrificators |
The Doctor |
Collective: Unconscious |
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Manifestations |
Henry Kissinger, Nick Peril, et al. |
Collective: Unconscious |
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Nine Eleven |
Wall Street Bull |
HERE Theatre |
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Linguish |
Michael Brack |
Theater Five |
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World Gone Wrong |
Thomas Arnold |
The Brick Theatre |
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Harry in Love (world premiere) |
Max Gelb |
The Piano Store |
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Saint Joan |
The Dauphin |
CSV Cultural Center |
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Tartuffe |
Valere |
Westside Rep. Theatre |
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Antony and Cleopatra |
Lepidus |
The Red Room |
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Measure for Measure |
Pompey |
Brookdale Theatre |
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As You Like It |
Adam, William |
Fort Tryon Park |
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Training |
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SUNY—Stony Brook |
Master of Arts (MA) |
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Brandeis University |
Bachelor of Arts (BA) cum laude |
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American Musical & Dramatic Academy |
Studied with numerous AMDA instructors |
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SFT, NYC: Scene Study in Film and Television |
Studied with Richard Omar |
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The Acting Studio, NYC: Scene Study and Performance |
Studied with James Price
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Writing & Solo Performance, NYC |
Studied with Kirsten Ames
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Voiceover, NYC |
Studied with Melissa Gray |
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Voice and Speech, NYC |
Studied with Camille Weidorn-Mazurek |
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Alexander Technique, NYC |
Studied with Elizabeth Buonomo |
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Improvisation, NYC |
Studied with Tom Carrozza |
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Special Skills |
Improvisation, impersonations (Bill Clinton; Homer Simpson; Eric Cartman; Charles Nelson Reilly; Vivian Leigh; Mary Tyler Moore crying; etc.), accents (Jewish old man, Cockney, Brooklyn Italian, Southern), basic stage combat, sketch writing.
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