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Gary
Armagnac currently serves
as the Chair and Producing Artistic Director of Theatre Arts
at University of the Pacific. He has been a professional actor,
director, and educator for more than thirty years, working on
stage and screen in New York, London, Los Angeles, and at major
regional theatres around the nation. He has served on the faculty of the Southern Utah
University, the Drama Studio London, California State University
Long Beach, and most recently the University of California Santa
Cruz, where he has appeared in numerous roles with Shakespeare
Santa Cruz since 1986 including the title role in Marlowe’s Dr.
Faustus. Gary was Artist-in-Residence and Director of Education
for five seasons with the Tony Award Winning Utah Shakespearean
Festival (USF). His work on stage there included the title
roles in Richard III and Pericles, Iago in Othello,
and Sir Toby in Twelfth Night. He also directed productions
of Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo & Juliet that
toured to communities throughout the southwestern United States. He
received the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award in 1998 for Shakes:
Rattle & Role, a documentary he wrote and directed for
Public Television about his touring production of Hamlet.
In 1984, he was presented with the Key to the City of St. Louis
for his performance in the National Tour of the Pulitzer Prize
winning A Soldier’s Story with the Negro Ensemble
Company. In 1996, he was honored with the Key to the City of
Stratford, Ontario, for his work with children in Shakespeare.
Gary has also received many other awards for his work, including
Hollywood Drama-Logue Awards for his portrayals of Dylan Thomas
in Dylan, the title role in Macbeth, Iago in
Othello, and for Directing/Lighting/Sets for his Los Angeles
production of Twelfth Night. In 1998/1999, Gary served
as Associate Artistic Director at the Sacramento Theatre Company,
directing critically acclaimed productions of Pericles, The
Last Night of Ballyhoo, and December In America.
At University of the Pacific, he has directed Twelfth Night,
A View From The Bridge, King Lear, and the West Coast Premier
of Simply The Thing She Is by Kate Hawley. At the invitation
of Sister Helen Prejean and Tim Robbins, he directed the stage
version of Dead Man Walking, by Mr. Robbins, in April
2006. Among his many television and film credits are guest starring
roles on Star Trek: the Next Generation, LA Law, Hill Street
Blues, Houston Knights, Brisco County Junior, Three Fugitives with
Nick Nolte and Martin Short, and a cameo appearance in the Coen
brothers’ Blood Simple. Gary recently performed
the lead role of John Plunkett in the West Coast Premier of Conor
McPherson’s Dublin Carol at the Aurora Theatre
in Berkeley, CA. |
