Matthew Arkin

Matthew Arkin, born in Brooklyn, works as a stage and screen actor and acting teacher. He studied at HB Studio with Uta Hagen, Austin Pendleton and Sheldon Patinkin. His Broadway debut came in 1993 with Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. He later played Ben Silverman in The Sunshine Boys in 1997 and Reggie Ellis in Losing Louie in 2006. A Drama Desk nomination came for his Gabe in the 1999 Off-Broadway debut of Dinner with Friends, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. His television work included 100 Centre Street, Law & Order and All My Children. At South Coast Repertory he originated roles in Our Mother's Brief Affair (2009) and The Prince of Atlantis (2011), and in 2013 he played the 600-pound lead in The Whale. Since 2008 he has taught acting, first at HB Studio and later at the Actors Studio in Los Angeles. In 2016 he released a detective story, In the Country of the Blind.