Ron Campbell is an actor and clown who has toured Europe, both North and South America and Japan with Cirque du Soleil in Kooza and stars in Teatro ZinZanni as Cecil B. De Grille. He has appeared in several award winning one person shows including R. Buckminster Fuller, The Thousandth Night, Shylock, The Boneman of Benares and one man adaptations of The Dybbuk and A Tale of Two Cities.
His life long love of Shakespeare began when his grandmother read him Macbeth as a bedtime story at age 8. He has since appeared in over forty Shakespeare productions playing some of his favorite roles including Iago, Richard The Third, Mercutio, Malvolio and Shylock.
Mr. Campbell has also been fortunate enough to play such roles as Don Quixote, Sherlock Holmes, Cyrano de Bergerac and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. Other theatres in which he has played leading roles include The Old Globe, Old Red Lion (London), American Conservatory Theater, The Mark Taper Forum, The Habima (Israel), Huntington Theatre Company (Boston), Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Stage Company, Mercury Theatre (Chicago), California Shakespeare Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Theatre Works, Los Angeles Theatre Center and The Actors Gang. Ron received a Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement from Theatre Communications Group, a Citation of Excellence from The American Society of Arts and Letters and London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago Drama Critics Circle Awards. For more on Ron check http://www.soarfeat.org.
