Originally from New York State, Gary began his professional career as a mime at age 13, performing up and down the Hudson River with Pete Seegar, Arlo Guthrie and other great folk entertainers of the 60's. In 1988 Gary co-founded the Spolin Players improv troupe, and is the only master teacher to have ever earned an endorsement from both Viola Spolin and her son, the legendary original director of Second City, Paul Sills. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.Ī master improvisational acting coach whose 30 years as a performer and Improv teacher has helped transform the lives of thousands of people, both on- and off-screen.It was Gary's 18-year association with world-renowned theater educator and author, Viola Spolin - famous for training the very first improvisational theater troupe in the US which led to the creation of today's well-known Second City improv troupe - that has provided the foundation for his work today. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. Gary Schwartz was born in the Year of the Dragon. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. He also teaches acting for animation and writes on Spolin’s work.Gary Schwartz’s zodiac sign is Leo. He teaches theater games locally and around the world. He is founder of The Valley Center Stage, North Bend’s Community Theater. He serves on the counsel of the newlyformed Actors Guild SAG-AFTRA, Seattle branch, and is the founder and Artistic Director of the Seattle area Valley Center Stage Community Theater.Ĭurrently Gary resides in North Bend WA. He is the founder of Improv Odyssey, an exciting approach to changing the way people work and play, entirely based on Spolin’s techniques. Today, Gary is a passionate, dynamic improv coach and facilitator. Details of his extensive acting career are available at. Since then, as a voice actor, Gary has gone on to work with Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Tim Burton, Kenneth Brannagh and many other well-known directors. In the 70’s and 80’s he appeared in numerous film and television projects including the Oscar-winning feature film Quest for Fire and 65 episodes of the Emmy-winning TV series Zoobilee Zoo, with Ben Vereen. Originally from New York State, Gary began his professional career as a mime at age 13, performing up and down the Hudson River with Pete Seegar, Arlo Guthrie and other great folk entertainers of the 60’s. In 1988 Gary co-founded the Spolin Players improv troupe (), and is the only master teacher to have ever earned an endorsement from both Viola Spolin and her son, the legendary original director of Second City, Paul Sills. It was Gary’s 18-year association with world-renowned theater educator and author, Viola Spolin – famous for training the very first improvisational theater troupe in the US which led to the creation of today’s well-known Second City improv troupe – that has provided the foundation for his work today. Gary Schwartz is an award-winning, TV and film actor, director, comedian and a master improvisational acting coach whose 30 years as a performer and improv teacher has helped transform the lives of thousands of people, both on- and off-screen.
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