ANTHONY ZERBE actor-playwright-teacher
Emmy Award winning stage and film actor Anthony Zerbe is regarded as of the country’s major character actors of stage, film and tv.
In an 90 minute ZOOM conversation, he speaks with young actors developing their art and craft in looking to work in theatre and film.
Zerbe describes the genius of American acting as realism informed by genuine emotion with each generation of actors extending and redefining that tradition according to the time in which they live.
In the 90 minute session that is part lecture and part back and forth conversation, Zerbe suggests to students ways to find an authentic emotional connection with a stage/film character and sourced by that emotion move from there to create fictional yet totally real character.
Theatre - Film- TV
theatre
Broadway, Off Broadway, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe Theatre, Arena Stage, DC Huntington Theatre, Stratford Theatre Festival, Canada.
Artistic Director for 5 years of Geva Theatre’s Reflections New Plays Festival in Rochester, NY
film
35 feature films including classics films COOL HAND LUKE, PAPILLON, ROOSTER COGBURN
television
2 tv series HARRY O and The Young Riders
25 movies of the week
47 appearances on various episodic series
national touring:
200+ performances BEHIND THE BROKEN WORDS with Roscoe Lee Browne
awards
Emmy Award - Harry O
teaching
Stella Adler Studio of Acting, NYC - 9 years
University of Delaware, MFA program, 8 years
100+ master class in colleges & universities in the course of touring productions of BEHIND THE BROKEN WORDS and e.e. Cummings.
3 Days of Theatre A one-on-one program with 10 acting students over the course of three days in hour long sessions performed in conjunction with his touring production IT’S ALL DONE WITH MIRRORS… the poetry in e.e. cummings
