Acting Intensive Program Staff

Program Director

Matthew Arkin, Director of the Acting Intensive Program
Arkin's Broadway credits include the revival of Neil Simon's;The Sunshine Boys with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, as well as Mr. Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor (also national tour). He has numerous Off-Broadway and regional credits including his Drama Desk-nominated performance as Gabe in Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends, and he received acclaim for his portrayal of the 600-pound Charlie in the West Coast premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, one of his many appearances at SCR. Films include indies Second Best, and Raising Flagg, as well as Death to Smoochy, Liar, Liar, North, and An Unmarried Woman. Television appearances include recurring roles on "Rescue Me," "100 Centre Street," "Third Watch" and "All My Children," and guest spots on "Aquarius," "NCIS," and "Switched at Birth," among many others. He is an adjunct professor at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, has taught Technique and Scene Study at New York's world-renowned HB Studio, and now teaches privately in Los Angeles. He studied technique, scene study and Shakespeare with Uta Hagen, and studied as well with Austin Pendleton and Sheldon Patinkin.

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