About Roger Hendricks Simon
Born 1942. Roger Hendricks Simon is a television actor, actor, film actor, stage actor and director.
Roger Hendricks Simon (born October 21, 1942) is an American theater and film actor, producer, and director. He is best known for his roles as Bernie Jacobs in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Fergal O'Reilly in Love in Kilnerry and Mac in Linoleum (opposite Jim Gaffigan, Tony Shalhoub and Rhea Seehorn). He is a graduate and founding member of Robert Brustein's Yale Repertory Company. Simon went on to direct London's Royal Court Theatre, Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, the Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Roundabout Theater, the Juilliard Opera, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Folger Shakespeare Group, Metromedia and BBC Television. He is Founding Artistic Director of The Simon Studio in NYC in 1978 and the Founding Artistic Director of L.A. Classical Theatre Lab in 1990, a member and moderator of the Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Unit in NYC 1991 - 2023 -
Early life and education He was born in NYC, 1942 and moved to Scarsdale, NY in 1951. His parents are Harold K. Simon and Mildred Koscherak Simon.
Education: Scarsdale High School '60 Middlebury College B.A.'64 Yale School of Drama, MFA'67
Career
Stage Director and actor: Yale Rep (Founding member under Artistic Director Robert Brustein), NY Shakespeare Festival, London's Royal Court Theatre, Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Folger Theatre Group, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, L.A. Founding Artistic Director: Theatre Center Classical Theatre Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival, O'Neill Playwrights Festival, Aspen Playwrights Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, John Drew Theatre (East Hampton, NY), Off Broadway: The Portrait, The Dressmaker's Secret (59E59 Theatres), I Count The Hours: La Mama and Theatre Row, Roundabout Theatre, Now There's Just the Three of Us: Chelsea Theatre Center at BAM, Benya the King: Jewish Rep Co., Love, Sex and Real Estate: The Chain Theatre - American Renaissance Theater Co.
Film and TV Film Actor: co star: The Sublet, co star: Love in Kilnerry (winner of International Independent Film's Best Supporting Actor), Linoleum (featured opposite Jim Gaffigan, Tony Shalhoub and Rhea Seehorn), Another Year Together, Can't Let It Go, actor and producer: Jimmy's Cafe (Newport Beach Film Festival selection). Creative Producer/actor: The Boys of Late Summer (Newport Beach Film Festival selection)
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American actor and director
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