Roger Hendricks Simon

Roger Hendricks Simon

Historia

A graduate and founding member of Robert Brustein's Yale Repertory Company, Roger went on to direct and act for Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, and also London's Royal Court Theatre, Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, La Mama, Roundabout, Juilliard Opera, Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Folger Shakespeare Group, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, PBS, Metromedia and BBC-TV, and National Public Radio. Elected to Notable Names in American Theatre, Roger has directed in London, New York and international festival premieres by Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, David Hare, Michael Weller, John Guare, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Israel Horowitz, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Megan Terry and William Saroyan. He has directed John Lithgow, John Travolta, James Earl Jones, James Woods, Tovah Feldshuh, Samuel L. Jackson, Dick Shawn and Judith Ivey to name but a few. Roger has directed plays and taught all aspects of communications in India, Pakistan, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa and throughout Europe for the U.S.I.A. and U.S. State Department. In the United States he has taught at UCLA, Columbia University, Yale University, N.Y.U., Juilliard, Brooklyn College. Roger is the founding artistic director for both The Simon Studio (since 1978) in New York City and the Los Angeles Theatre Center Classical Theatre Lab (since 1990). Roger was awarded an NEA grant as producing director of National Public Radio's Simon Studio Presents (also on XM Sirius cable radio and Time Warner Public Access TV). As an actor he recently played a role based on Hank Greenberg of AIG in Oliver Stone's Wall Street2 opposite Michael Douglas and played the lead roles in the critically acclaimed indie feature The Sublet, in the film short Jimmy's Cafe (Newport Beach Film Festival) and currently co-produces, directs and acts in The Simon Studio and Sarah Levine Simon's musical web series Bread Today.

Perfil

Roger Hendricks Simon

Películas

Linoleum
Linoleum
Mac
When the host of a failing children’s science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.
Love in Kilnerry
Love in Kilnerry
Fergal O'Reilly
The elderly residents of a small remote town panic when the EPA announces mandatory changes to their chemical plant could cause a dramatic increase in sexual libido. The sheriff tries to maintain order and decency but mayhem ensues.
Paradise City
Paradise City
Seymour Holmgren
The worlds of a young cop with a checkered past, an ex-con turned devout Muslim, and a junkie with affluent roots collide in a plot to justify New York City's counter-terrorism campaign against homegrown extremists.
Forgetting Sandy Glass
Forgetting Sandy Glass
Stewart
A story of three brothers and their dysfunctional family unfolds once eldest brother, Sandy Glass, is released from prison after an eight year sentence. Middle brother Michael is forced to work three jobs in order to put a roof over his younger brother Tommy and his girlfriend Stephanie's heads. Sandy is greeted with open arms from Tommy, who idolizes him, but Michael is rather worried than happy. Sandy has put Michael through hell and back after their mother's death and has done nothing to support the family, leaving Michael with nothing but resentment towards him.
The Ticket
The Ticket
Wrinkled old man
James, que ha sido ciego desde la juventud, vive feliz con su esposa Sam y su hijo Jonah. Un día recupera su visión y descubre que un tumor inoperable que había estado presionando sus nervios ópticos en su cabeza desde que era un adolescente se ha reducido milagrosamente. Lleno de felicidad, James y Sam hacen planes para su futuro. Sin embargo, James se está volviendo metafóricamente ciego por su obsesión por lo superficial en su búsqueda del éxito.