Armin Shimerman*

Armin Shimerman is a highly regarded actor best known to television audiences as Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or as Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has appeared on Broadway: Lincoln Center’s Three Penny Opera, Circle-in-the-Square’s St. Joan, Richard Rodgers’ I Remember Mama, and George Abbott’s Broadway. Selected Regional Theatre – San Diego Repertory Theater: where as the blind Irishman in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, he received San Diego Critics Circle Award for best actor; San Diego Old Globe: Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor; in Henry V at the American Shakespeare Festival; in Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse at the Indiana Repertory Theatre; at the Guthrie Theatre: Three Penny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats and Fool in King Lear; at the Utah Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (nominated for a Broadway World award for Polonius), Macbeth, and The Price. Selected Los Angeles Theatre – Discord and Hughie at the Geffen Theatre, Birthday Party at the Matrix Theater (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Nom. Lead Performance); Macbeth and Three Days in the Country at the Antaeus Theater, and Richard II at the Mark Taper Forum. As a Shakespeare professor, he has taught at Antaeus in Glendale, as an associate professor at the University of Southern California (USC), and at Theatricum Botanicum. Additionally, for Antaeus, he has co-directed The Crucible (Broadway World nomination), Measure for Measure, and recently, Twelfth Night, with both Liza and Kitty. TV: 80 different Guest Star roles, including Stargate, Boston Legal, Beauty and the Beast, Brooklyn Bridge, Timeless, and countless cartoons. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his performance in the web series, Red Bird. In addition, he has penned a Sci-Fi trilogy, The Merchant Prince (Simon & Schuster), and a period mystery trilogy, Illyria (Jumpmaster Press). As a voice-over artist, his work with the ensembles for Maltese Falcon and Zorro was nominated for Grammy awards. In the field of interactive games, he has voiced over two dozen iconic characters, notably Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet and Clank franchise, Joe Chill in Arkham’s Shadow, as well as Andrew Ryan in the Bioshock series. He has been happily married to Kitty Swink for over 42 years – unquestionably his most outstanding achievement.