Victor Talmadge

Victor Talmadge is pleased to return to the Festival where he last appeared reading Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. He has appeared throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and was awarded the 2024 Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performance for his portrayal of Marius in Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca. Victor has worked extensively in New York and regional theaters and was on Broadway in the world premiere of David Mamet's November. He played “The King” in the Tony Award winning production of the Broadway National Tour of The King and I and was seen as Scar in the Los Angeles production of The Lion King. Victor boasts extensive film and television credits and played recurring characters on the TV series, Manhattan and Vegas. As a playwright, his play, The Gate Of Heaven, was awarded The Nakashima Peace Prize. Victor is currently Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Professor and Professor of the Practice, Mills College at Northeastern University.