Geoffrey Owens

About Geoffrey

Geoffrey Owens has appeared on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet (with Orlando Bloom). Other credits include Oscar Wilde’s Salome (with Al Pacino), the Chicago premiere of David Mamet's Race (at the Goodman Theatre), As You Like It (as "Jaques") at Two River Theatre, and Julius Caesar (as "Casca") at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C.

On film, Owens has appeared in Wilde Salomé (directed by Al Pacino), Stonebrook (with Seth Green), The Paper (directed by Ron Howard), Play the Game (with Andy Griffith), and Youth in Oregon (with Frank Langella). His television credits include appearances on Built to Last, The Slap, The Leftovers, The Affair, Deadbeat, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Medium, Journeyman, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Wedding Bells, Law and Order, That’s So Raven, Flash Forward, and Friends of the People. He has been seen as "Gerald" on HBO's Divorce and on episodes of Bluebloods and Lucifer.

​As a director, Owens has staged productions of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Tartuffe, as well as one-act plays by Chekhov, Overruled by Shaw, American Buffalo by Mamet, Statements Made After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard, and Tamer of Horses by William Mastrosimone.

As well as developing and leading a private weekly Shakespeare workshop, Mr. Owens has taught Shakespeare and Acting at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio, Columbia University, Yale University, the Gene Frankel Studio, and more. He is the founder and artistic director of The Brooklyn Shakespeare Company and is the recipient of the BACA Brooklyn Bridge Award and the Danny Kaye Award. He studied acting with Uta Hagen, Nikos Psacharapoulos, Austin Pendleton, and Bart Teush. For most of the past 25 years, he has served as a semi-finalists judge of the National Shakespeare Competition at Lincoln Center.