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Bill Bowers

As an actor, mime and educator, Bill Bowers has traveled throughout all 50 of the United States, and 30 countries in Europe and Asia.   

His Broadway credits include Zazu in The Lion King, and Leggett in The Scarlet Pimpernel, and he has appeared on the stages of Theatre for a New Audience, St. Anne’s Warehouse, EST, Radio City Music Hall, The Kennedy Center, Steppenwolf, LaMaMa, New York Fringe, and HERE.   

Bill has written and performed his own plays Off Broadway and in theaters around the world. These plays include:
‘Night Sweetheart ‘Night Buttercup, Under a Montana Moon, It Goes Without Saying, Beyond Words, All Over The Map and The Traveler. 

Bill has been hailed by critics as “the great American mime” and has received top honors at theatre festivals throughout the world.  He presently teaches at Stella Adler Center for the Arts and the William Esper Studio, and co-founded PhysFestNYC, an annual festival of Physical Theatre.

Bill is featured in the Apple TV Series Before starring Billy Crystal and in the feature film Lost Cause. He is also featured in the film Two Weeks Notice, on television in Disney’s Out of the Box, Remember W.E.N.N., PBS Kids’ Peter and the Wolf, and All My Children.    

Bill holds an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and an Honorary PhD from Rocky Mountain College.  Bill is a student of the legendary Marcel Marceau. www.Bill-Bowers.com