Ken Sonkin is an actor/director whose work has been seen at many
Bay area theaters including American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley
Rep, and The Magic Theater as well as at The Denver Center Theatre
Company, Pacific Resident Theater Ensemble (LA), and Pennsylvania
Centre Stage. He is an associate artist with Porchlight Theatre
Company and Sonoma Rep, and a company member of PlayGround. He has
a BFA in acting from Ohio State University and an MFA from A.C.T.
He is a member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG, and
AFTRA. He has received awards from Bay Area Theater Critics Circle,
Dean Goodman, Best of The North Bay, Arty, Ellie, and Dramalogue.
Regional directing credits: The Crucible, Twelfth
Night, Humble Boy, Summerland (world
premiere), Tape, The Subject Was Roses,
Flowers for Algernon, The Foreigner, Golf
with Alan Shepard, Female Transport, A Southern
Christmas (world premiere), Incorruptible, Les
Liaisons Dangereuses, The Full Monty, West Side
Story, and The Producers. Regional acting credits:
Kissinger in Nixon's Nixon, Teach in American
Buffalo, Trinculo in The Tempest, Paul in
Creditors, Magnus in The Real Inspector Hound,
Lady Enid/Nicodemus in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Koken in
Kabuki Medea, and Max Love in Max &
Maxie.
Ken has been a member of A.C.T.'s acting company and
core conservatory faculty, and has taught and directed for The
National Theatre Conservatory, Stanford University, Northwestern
University, Solano College, and Cornell College. He founded and
served as director for The Theatre Artists Institute, the
professional actor-training program for American Musical Theater of
San Jose, and served as artistic director for The Regency Center in
San Francisco. At USF, he has taught Acting II, Acting III,
Cabaret, and Professionalism Seminar. He has directed mainstage
productions of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses,
Angels in America: Perestroika and studio productions of
Tartuffe, The Country Wife, A Christmas
Carol, and Goldberg Street. In 2006, Ken created the
USF Cabaret program and served as the faculty advisor for The
College Players. He is a recipient of a Jesuit Foundation Grant for
his work in conjunction with USF's School of Nursing.
