DEMO REEL Stephen Simon was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Novato, California.  In addition to his work with Ten West, you can currently see Stephen in several commercials featuring his physical comedy and he just recently shot a PSA for Live Earth (www.liveearth.org) - an organization promoting awareness of and solutions for our climate crisis.  Recent film projects include Cubicle the Musicle and The Procedure as well as The Picnic, Somebody Else, and Obsessive Clowning Disorder. He also guest starred on Nickleodeon’s All That. He won the Geoffrey Award for Best Leading Actor for his work as Albert in Bye Bye Birdie and in the World Premiers of By the Great Horn Spoon! and March Tale, created the roles of Praiseworthy and Robert Cecil, respectively. Other recent productions include Kookamonga Falls, Jenelle Riley’s Seven Deadly Sins, and I Wrote This!, Ten Tops and Fast and Loose with the Sacred Fools Theater Company. He graduated from UC Irvine and trained at HB Studios (with Uta Hagen), and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College (with Bill Irwin and Larry Pisoni). He currently studies Commedia del Arte with John Achorn and acting with Charles Carroll; other totally relevant training includes rock climbing instructor, school teacher, underwater boat cleaner, professional driver for Charles Nelson Reilly, and singing in the Dapper Dan's Barbershop Quartet on Main St., USA. Oh, and he’s tall. If you want to know more, ask him!