Victor Talmadge

Victor Talmadge is an actor, director and playwright who trained at Cornell University and the California Institute of the Arts, earning degrees in 1977 and 1980. He spent a decade in New York, acting off-Broadway and regionally in modern and classic plays and collaborating with playwrights on new work. He co-founded the award-winning theater company Empire Stage Players and served as its literary director. His one-act play Kiss Goodbye the Howling Beast reached the finals of a short play competition held by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He taught playwriting at Johns Hopkins University and was an adjunct assistant professor of English at the City University of New York. With Lane Nishikawa he wrote The Gate of Heaven, about a Japanese American soldier. He has appeared at the Magic Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and has directed for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and guest starred in television and film projects.