Ron Campbell
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Actor, Writer, Martial Artist, Sailor, Clown |
| Introduction | Ron Campbell was the lead clown in Cirque du Soleil's Kooza and plays Cecil B.DeGrille at Teatro Zinzanni. He was Alfie in One Man, Two Guvnors at Berkeley Rep and Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles. Eponymous roles include Don Quixote, Richard III, Tartuffe, The Imaginary Invalid and The Inspector General. He was a street performer in Europe, a founding member of the Actor's Gang and an Associate Artist at The California Shakespeare Theatre and The Los Angeles Theatre Center. He stars in The Far Near Shore, a film directed by Jeff Warrin. His solo shows include R. Buckminster Fuller, The Dybbuk, The Thousandth Night, A Tale of Two Cities, The Bone Man of Benares, Shylock and Beckett’s Eh Joe. He has performed at The Habima, The Mark Taper Forum, The American Conservatory Theatre, The Royal Albert Hall, The Old Globe and the Old Red Lion in London. The Fuji Dome in Tokyo. Awards: The London Fringe One Man Show of the Year, The Los Angeles and Bay Area Critic’s Circle Awards for Lead and Solo Performance, Theatre Bay Area Best Actor Award and The Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement. |
| Interests | Campbell sails his 1969 Yankee Dolphin Sloop in the San Francisco Bay. He has toured with Cirque du Soleil and studying Iaido in Japan, where he received the rank of Yondan in the martial art of Iaido. Ron teaches Acting from the Outside In at Soar Feat Studios and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre among other places. Favorite roles include Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, the Chef in Teatro Zinzanni and the eponymous roles in Richard III; Cyrano de Bergerac; Tartuffe; The Imaginary Invalid and The Inspector General. Film credits include The Far Near Shore, The Witches of Eastwick, Babylon 5, Dead Bang, Spy Hard and the independent Farewell to Flander's Field, for which he received the Moscow International Film Festival Best Actor nomination. His most recent film The Far Near Shore is at the Cannes Film Festival. |