Ken Womble
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Frasier 206C
970.351.1193
ken.womble@unco.edu

Ken Womble received an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University and a BFA in Acting from Florida State University. He has appeared in two Off Broadway premieres, including We're All Lucky to Have Seats on Phil Rizzuto Day at Jason's Park Royal. In regional theatre and stock he has played such roles as Richard in The Lion in Winter at North Coast Repertory Theatre, and Morgan in The Drawer Boy at the Little Theatre of the Rockies.  Film and TV roles include the title character in the independent film Bartleby, and recurring parts on Guiding Light, General Hospital and All My Children.

He studied acting with master teachers Michael Howard and Warren Robertson in New York.  His preparation in voice and Shakespeare included four months of private study with Claudia Anderson, a Linklater designated teacher, and work with Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Company's month-long intensive.  His adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet have received over 35 productions around the country.

Ken was invited by Anna Strasberg, Lee Strasberg's widow, to teach film acting at the famed Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, and has taught film acting workshops at various college and high school conferences.  He also taught acting classes at Los Angeles Valley College and does private professional coaching.

He has directed over 50 plays, including Welcome to the Moon at the American Renegade Theatre, Split at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and Variations On The Death of Trotsky at Saddleback College. For television he directed the situation comedy pilot Under the Desk.  He wrote and directed the documentary film, Wally Huntoon, A Life By Design, about a California scene designer, and is currently co-writing and directing the first-ever documentary on best selling novelist James Michener, James Michener, Inside Out.  The film, which is being produced through UNC, is scheduled for completion in 2007 with plans for national television distribution.

At UNC, Ken teaches Audition Techniques, Advanced Acting Styles I, Beginning Acting, Scene Study and Intro to Theatre. He is a member of Actors' Equity, SAG and AFTRA, and was recently chosen for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in America.