Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Frasier 206C
970.351.1193
ken.womble@unco.edu
Ken Womble is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Northern Colorado, specializing in acting and auditioning. He also teaches Playwriting and Introduction to Theatre. Ken has an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University, a BFA in Acting from Florida State University, and studied with master teachers Michael Howard and Warren Robertson in New York.
As an actor Ken has appeared in two Off Broadway premieres and in numerous regional and stock productions. His 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. For his work as Howard in Picnic at Colorado’s Little Theatre of the Rockies he was cited as Best Actor of 2008 by the Greeley Tribune.
For television Ken directed the situation comedy pilot Under the Desk. He has directed over 50 plays, including Welcome to the Moon at the American Renegade Theatre in Los Angeles and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at the University of Northern Colorado.
Ken taught film acting at the famed Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and has conducted audition and film workshops at college conferences around the country. While living in Los Angeles he taught professional acting classes and coached privately. Ken also teaches professional classes in auditioning and acting for film in Denver.
His interest in Shakespeare led him to train with Tina Packard at Shakespeare & Company, and to adapt A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Eldridge Publishing) and Romeo and Juliet (Playscripts, Inc.). The plays have received over sixty productions around the country.
Ken conducted two years of research on novelist James Michener. That work culminated in the documentary, James A. Michener, An Epic Life, which Ken wrote and directed. The film was screened at the James A. Michener Centennial Celebration at the University of Northern Colorado in 2007. For his work on the film Ken was selected as the 2008-2009 Scholar of the Year for UNC’s College of Performing and Visual Arts. Ken’s first documentary, Wally Huntoon, A Life By Design, has appeared on television.
Ken was formerly the Performing Arts Director at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in southern California, and also taught and directed at Saddleback College. He is a member of Actors’ Equity, SAG and AFTRA, and is listed in Who’s Who in America.
Ken Womble