Mike Kimmel is an experienced actor, speaker,

playwright, teacher and audition coach. He is a

twenty-plus year member of SAG-AFTRA with

extensive experience in both the New York and

Los Angeles markets. He worked with directors

Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Craig

Shapiro, and Christopher Cain.  TV credits include

Game of Silence, Zoo, In Plain Sight, Treme,

Cold Case, Breakout Kings, Memphis Beat, and

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was a regular sketch

comedy player on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

for eleven years, and is a full voting member of the

Television Academy.

Mike is a Broadway and Off-Broadway veteran

and performed on stage at Radio City Music Hall.

He trained with Michael Shurtleff, William Hickey,

Ralph Marrero, Gloria Maddox, Harold Sylvester,

Wendy Davis, Amy Hunter, Bob Collier, and Stuart

Robinson.  He has a B.A. from Brandeis University

and an M.A. from California State University.

 

Mike taught at Upper Iowa University, University

of New Orleans, University of Phoenix, Nunez

Community College, Delgado Community College,

and in the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Burbank

California public schools. He is a two-time past

president of New Orleans Toastmasters, the public

speaking organization, and the 2014 recipient of the

Excellence in Teaching Award from Upper Iowa

University.