|  In
Gary's Words...
"It is my passion to help artists reawaken and develop
their sense of play. To nurture that imagination which made
us, as children, believe that a cardboard box was a battleship
or a plastic tube, a swashbuckling sword or dagger. To breathe
life back into that certainty that when we played house we
were, without question, the father of the family or the mother
or even the baby!
So welcome to the game of art, the game of acting. Awaken
your imagination, make believe whatever you wish to believe
and above all, play! Play in every sense of the word especially
its origins…risk, exercise…take chances! And with
that, uncover your true voice as an artist and then share
it with the world. The world needs you!" ~ Gary Imhoff
About
Gary Imhoff
The Professional Artists Workshop and the Musical Artists
Workshop are taught by award winning actor and director Gary
Imhoff.
 An
award-winning actor, singer and voice-over specialist, Gary
has added award-winning director to his list of accomplishments.
Most recently he directed Sylvia, a play by noted
film writer-director, Henry Jaglom. He also collaborated with
Henry Jaglom in 2009 on the world premier hit Just 45
Minutes To Broadway. The play had a smash hit run for
over 10 months and won many awards including “Best Director
of 2009” from the Beverly Hills outlook and “Best
Direction of a comedy-Drama 2009-2010” from Stage Scene
L.A. This was Gary’s second time at the helm of a Henry
Jaglom play, having directed the hit Always, But Not Forever…
a play Mr. Jaglom wrote from his film of the same title. Gary
is also currently co-writing two feature films, which he will
also direct, Scottish Dreams and Wildflower.
 In
addition to his burgeoning directing career Gary is a versatile
artist with extensive experience and credits. In Los Angeles
theatre he starred in the West Coast Premier of Stephen Sondheim’s
Assassins and in the West Coast Premier of the long-running
hit, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change for
which he went on to join the original company in New York
City at the Westside Theatre. He also appeared in A Patriot
for Me with Alan Bates and in Hal Prince’s 3HREE,
both at the Ahmanson Theatre, in Elizabeth Swados’ The
Beautiful Lady with Joanne Worley at the Mark Taper Forum,
and won a Dramalogue Award for his work in the West Coast
Premier of Personals. Gary originally became a professional
actor by joining the Boston company of Godspell and
went on to join the original New York production. Also in
New York, Gary starred in Fight Song, in Sherlock
Holmes, and in the Broadway-bound Snoopy! playing
the role of Charlie Brown.
Gary has guest starred in over 30 television productions
and pilots spanning from HBO’s Carnivale, Monk
and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to now famous classic
episodes of Barney Miller and Taxi. He recurred
as Curtis Estabrook on the long-running hit series Falcon
Crest, guest starred in numerous episodes of Eight
Is Enough, as well as The Waltons, One Day
At A Time, The Powers of Matthew Starr, How
The West Was Won - to name a few. Gary had the extraordinary
pleasure of starring opposite two of televisions greats, Lucille
Ball in the NBC special Lucy Moves to NBC and Milton
Berle in the television pilot Moscow and Vine.
In film, Gary starred opposite another legend, Don Adams
in The Return of Maxwell Smart. He also appeared
in such films as The Green Mile with Tom Hanks, in
The Wager as “Babayama” the East Indian
Guru, as well as in Angel In Training, Lessons
of the Assassin, Skyscraper, Rage and
I Crave Rock ‘N’ Roll and most recently
Queen of the Lot slated for 2010 release.
 As
a voice-over specialist, Gary stars in the animated series
Spiderman as both Harry Osborn and The Green Goblin,
and in Don Bluth’s animated film, Thumbelina
as the lead voice of Prince Cornelius, and he sings the film’s
love theme “Let Me Be Your Wings” written and
produced by Barry Manilow. He is also the singing voice of
Timon in the Disney animated series, The Lion King.
 In
addition to his Broadway and musical theatre experience, Gary
has performed to sold-out audiences at Masquers in Los Angeles
and debuted his full-length Cabaret act at Feinstein’s
at the Cinegrill. He starred with the Knoxville Symphony in
a tribute to Irving Berlin as part of their Pops Series. And
most recently has played the lead in presentations in Chicago
and New York of the future Broadway musical, Artaria.
Gary has over 24 years of experience as a preeminent acting
teacher and coach in Los Angeles, having taught for many of
those years at The Beverly Hills Playhouse. In 2007 Gary developed
his own unique approach and created The Professional Artists
Workshop and The Musical Artists Workshop, which he teaches
at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre in North Hollywood.
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