Geoffrey G. Forward

Director

SAG, AFTRA, AEA

2123 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290

Phone: (310) 455-9715 FAX (310) 455-9927
email:geofforward@shakespeare-usa.com

Education & Research: MFA, U of Utah, Acting & Directing;
11 years Shakespeare scholar, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

Grants: Shakespeare Research Grant, Huntington Library

Founder & Artistic Director, The Los Angeles Shakespeare Company

Founder & Artistic Director, The Rocky Mountain Regional Theatre, Salt Lake City, UT

Owner/Director, Forward Productions, Snowbird Ski Resort, UT, Parkwest Ski Resort, UT

Directing (Representative)

King Lear, Los Angeles Shakespeare Company (LASC)

Merry Wives of Windsor, LASC

Much Ado About Nothing, LASC

Richard II, LASC

The Taming of the Shrew, LASC

Shakespeare's Sonnets (w/Sally Kirkland), Shakespeare Society of America, Los Angeles

Merry Wives of Windsor (w/ Gloria Grahame) (Assoc. Dir.), Shakespeare Society of America

Under Milkwood, American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA)

Spoon River Anthology, AADA

The Lion in Winter, Rocky Mountain Regional Theatre (RMRT)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, RMRT

Charley's Aunt, RMRT

The Solid Gold Cadillac, Promised Valley Playhouse, Salt Lake City

The Fantasticks, Snowbird, UT; Parkwest, UT

You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Snowbird, UT

Oh, Coward!, Snowbird, UT

Vocal Coach (Representative)

Two years Vocal Coach for The Shakespeare Society of America, Los Angeles.

The Tempest

Anthony and Cleopatra

The Taming of the Shrew

King Lear

Merry Wives of Windsor, starring Gloria Grahame, directed by Jack Manning

Teaching

Director, The Actor's Shakespeare Workshop - 20 years

Voice & Speech Instructor, American Academy of Dramatic Arts - 7 years

Acting Instructor, University of Utah, 2 years

Author

What `Maior' is Falstaff Denying, Shakespeare Quarterly, Fall 1990

Power Speech (audio tapes)

PROSPEECH (Book & audio tapes on Standard American Diction)

American Diction for Singers (book & audio tapes)

Will Shakespeare (a one-actor play about Shakespeare's life and times) co-author Donald Freed

Currently writing The Actor's Shakespeare (on acting & directing Shakespeare)

Actor (Representative)

Film & TV: Airport `75, Highway to Heaven, The Young and the Restless, Falcon Crest, Freddy's
Nightmare, Favorite Son, The Bob Hope Special, The Munsters Today, Different Strokes,
General Hospital

Stage: Anthony and Cleopatra (w/Mitchell Ryan)-Pompey , The Taming of the Shrew-Petruchio,
The Tempest-Alonso, Troilus and Cressida-Hector, Much Ado About Nothing-Don Pedro,
Will Shakespeare-Shakespeare, The Lion In Winter (w/Joan Fontaine)-Richard, The Hasty
Heart-Digger (w/James MacArthur), Othello (w/Manu Topou)-Iago, Macbeth-Macduff, Guys and
Dolls-Sky Masterson, The Boyfriend-Tony, Walking Happy-Will Mossop.

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