Los Angeles

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Acting In Commercials #1 to register for this class. **

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Kevin McCorkle

Description:

This is a four day intensive course.

You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Monday, October 14 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 18 from 10am-5pm
• Monday, October 21 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 25 from 10am-5pm

A one hour lunch break will be held on each date.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 14, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Join the SAG-AFTRA LA Conservatory for Acting In Commercials!

This class will incorporate simulated audition exercises as well as discussion of the approach, technique and preparation for the audition process. Lecture covering the key aspects of a commercial career including; agent representation, union affiliation, the casting process, set etiquette, financial formulas as well as actor interaction and communication with the director. Other lecture topics will be covered. Guest speakers (seasoned professionals) offering insight regarding may attend live or on zoom when available.  Specific aspects of commercial acting or production will be utilized, giving students first hand exposure to the process. 

Students in this course should be advanced. They should have prior experience, knowledge of general acting theory and technique. 

This course will incorporate lecture, discussion, simulated auditions and video exercise, required reading, and outside exercises. 

Directions: 
The L.A. SAG-AFTRA CONSERVATORY ACTING IN COMMERCIALS WORKBOOK will be used throughout the duration of this course, please keep this workbook on hand. 

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Acting In Commercials #1 to register for this class. **

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Kevin McCorkle

Description:

This is a four day intensive course.

You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Monday, October 14 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 18 from 10am-5pm
• Monday, October 21 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 25 from 10am-5pm

A one hour lunch break will be held on each date.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 14, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Join the SAG-AFTRA LA Conservatory for Acting In Commercials!

This class will incorporate simulated audition exercises as well as discussion of the approach, technique and preparation for the audition process. Lecture covering the key aspects of a commercial career including; agent representation, union affiliation, the casting process, set etiquette, financial formulas as well as actor interaction and communication with the director. Other lecture topics will be covered. Guest speakers (seasoned professionals) offering insight regarding may attend live or on zoom when available.  Specific aspects of commercial acting or production will be utilized, giving students first hand exposure to the process. 

Students in this course should be advanced. They should have prior experience, knowledge of general acting theory and technique. 

This course will incorporate lecture, discussion, simulated auditions and video exercise, required reading, and outside exercises. 

Directions: 
The L.A. SAG-AFTRA CONSERVATORY ACTING IN COMMERCIALS WORKBOOK will be used throughout the duration of this course, please keep this workbook on hand. 

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Acting In Commercials #1 to register for this class. **

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Kevin McCorkle

Description:

This is a four day intensive course.

You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Monday, October 14 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 18 from 10am-5pm
• Monday, October 21 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 25 from 10am-5pm

A one hour lunch break will be held on each date.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 14, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Join the SAG-AFTRA LA Conservatory for Acting In Commercials!

This class will incorporate simulated audition exercises as well as discussion of the approach, technique and preparation for the audition process. Lecture covering the key aspects of a commercial career including; agent representation, union affiliation, the casting process, set etiquette, financial formulas as well as actor interaction and communication with the director. Other lecture topics will be covered. Guest speakers (seasoned professionals) offering insight regarding may attend live or on zoom when available.  Specific aspects of commercial acting or production will be utilized, giving students first hand exposure to the process. 

Students in this course should be advanced. They should have prior experience, knowledge of general acting theory and technique. 

This course will incorporate lecture, discussion, simulated auditions and video exercise, required reading, and outside exercises. 

Directions: 
The L.A. SAG-AFTRA CONSERVATORY ACTING IN COMMERCIALS WORKBOOK will be used throughout the duration of this course, please keep this workbook on hand. 

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event will open on Monday, September 30 at 10AM **

Deadline to RSVP is Oct. 11 at 12 noon PT.

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Kevin McCorkle

Description:

This is a four day intensive course.

You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Monday, October 14 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 18 from 10am-5pm
• Monday, October 21 from 10am-5pm
• Friday, October 25 from 10am-5pm

A one hour lunch break will be held on each date. 

Join the SAG-AFTRA LA Conservatory for Acting In Commercials!

This class will incorporate simulated audition exercises as well as discussion of the approach, technique and preparation for the audition process. Lecture covering the key aspects of a commercial career including; agent representation, union affiliation, the casting process, set etiquette, financial formulas as well as actor interaction and communication with the director. Other lecture topics will be covered. Guest speakers (seasoned professionals) offering insight regarding may attend live or on zoom when available.  Specific aspects of commercial acting or production will be utilized, giving students first hand exposure to the process. 

Students in this course should be advanced. They should have prior experience, knowledge of general acting theory and technique. 

This course will incorporate lecture, discussion, simulated auditions and video exercise, required reading, and outside exercises. 

Directions: 
Please review pages 1 - 8 of the L.A. SAG-AFTRA CONSERVATORY ACTING IN COMMERCIALS WORKBOOK in advance to the first day of class. 

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event will open on Monday, Oct. 14 at 10AM **

Deadline to RSVP is Oct. 25  at 12 noon PT.

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, Cagney Boardroom (Lobby Level)
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Description:
Join the L.A. SAG-AFTRA Conservatory for an Actors Evening featuring members who are incredibly informed and conversant about the work we do as Background and Stand-Ins.

Join our panelists: Jesse Martinez Carlos, Jessica Brown, Miki Yamashita, Peggy Lane O Rourke, Rick Markman, Robert Fisher, and Ron Ostrow.

Moderated by Lee Garlington.

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

Panelists are subject to change without notification.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process #1 and Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance to register for this class. **

This is an eight week intensive course. You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Tuesday, October 1 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 8 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 15 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 22 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 29 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 5 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 12 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 19 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 1, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Caryn West

Description:

Join Caryn West for Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process!

Take another deep dive into characters in film and theater scenes, from script analysis to a full footing.

A course to reawaken your body and inventive spirit taxed by too many instant self tapes deadlines.

Here is a space to go slow and examine new ways to move, think, listen, and play. Try out more roles that the biz may not see you doing but can truly stretch you past typecasting.

Focus on process and the freedom to fail, get constructive feedback on experiments, stretching outside of your comfort zone, overcoming rust and a De-emphasis on Results.

Work on 1 scene and one monologue luxuriously and slowly over weeks 2-8.

Class One: Bring a NEW monologue preferably with ancestral voices and experience. Movement and vocal warm-ups. scenes and partners assigned. Suggest a type of material that would stretch you past your obvious casting or typical genre strength.

Class Two and Three: Table reads before ANY rehearsal and text analysis without self tape result speed. Bring in the event, your roles function, genre, who is the writer .

Class Four: Movement warm-up and first footings, exploring the character in body and space, exercises for personalization and being present. Monologues.

Class Five and Six: Monologues off book.  Improving the Scene. Exploring On set ways to be ready.

Class Seven to Eight: The Freedom to keep making mistakes. Fully memorized. Listening to yourself and your partner Staged with props and costumes.

Note: This is only for participants of Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance. Actors need to rehearse outside of the class to prepare scenes. This is for actors who want to have to continue to have fun and explore without judgment. Actors are encouraged to stretch with characters they may not get cast as and re-examine or revive their process with support you deserve.

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process #1 and Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance to register for this class. **

This is an eight week intensive course. You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Tuesday, October 1 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 8 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 15 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 22 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 29 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 5 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 12 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 19 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 1, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Caryn West

Description:

Join Caryn West for Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process!

Take another deep dive into characters in film and theater scenes, from script analysis to a full footing.

A course to reawaken your body and inventive spirit taxed by too many instant self tapes deadlines.

Here is a space to go slow and examine new ways to move, think, listen, and play. Try out more roles that the biz may not see you doing but can truly stretch you past typecasting.

Focus on process and the freedom to fail, get constructive feedback on experiments, stretching outside of your comfort zone, overcoming rust and a De-emphasis on Results.

Work on 1 scene and one monologue luxuriously and slowly over weeks 2-8.

Class One: Bring a NEW monologue preferably with ancestral voices and experience. Movement and vocal warm-ups. scenes and partners assigned. Suggest a type of material that would stretch you past your obvious casting or typical genre strength.

Class Two and Three: Table reads before ANY rehearsal and text analysis without self tape result speed. Bring in the event, your roles function, genre, who is the writer .

Class Four: Movement warm-up and first footings, exploring the character in body and space, exercises for personalization and being present. Monologues.

Class Five and Six: Monologues off book.  Improving the Scene. Exploring On set ways to be ready.

Class Seven to Eight: The Freedom to keep making mistakes. Fully memorized. Listening to yourself and your partner Staged with props and costumes.

Note: This is only for participants of Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance. Actors need to rehearse outside of the class to prepare scenes. This is for actors who want to have to continue to have fun and explore without judgment. Actors are encouraged to stretch with characters they may not get cast as and re-examine or revive their process with support you deserve.

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process #1 and Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance to register for this class. **

This is an eight week intensive course. You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Tuesday, October 1 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 8 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 15 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 22 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 29 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 5 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 12 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 19 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 1, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Caryn West

Description:

Join Caryn West for Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process!

Take another deep dive into characters in film and theater scenes, from script analysis to a full footing.

A course to reawaken your body and inventive spirit taxed by too many instant self tapes deadlines.

Here is a space to go slow and examine new ways to move, think, listen, and play. Try out more roles that the biz may not see you doing but can truly stretch you past typecasting.

Focus on process and the freedom to fail, get constructive feedback on experiments, stretching outside of your comfort zone, overcoming rust and a De-emphasis on Results.

Work on 1 scene and one monologue luxuriously and slowly over weeks 2-8.

Class One: Bring a NEW monologue preferably with ancestral voices and experience. Movement and vocal warm-ups. scenes and partners assigned. Suggest a type of material that would stretch you past your obvious casting or typical genre strength.

Class Two and Three: Table reads before ANY rehearsal and text analysis without self tape result speed. Bring in the event, your roles function, genre, who is the writer .

Class Four: Movement warm-up and first footings, exploring the character in body and space, exercises for personalization and being present. Monologues.

Class Five and Six: Monologues off book.  Improving the Scene. Exploring On set ways to be ready.

Class Seven to Eight: The Freedom to keep making mistakes. Fully memorized. Listening to yourself and your partner Staged with props and costumes.

Note: This is only for participants of Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance. Actors need to rehearse outside of the class to prepare scenes. This is for actors who want to have to continue to have fun and explore without judgment. Actors are encouraged to stretch with characters they may not get cast as and re-examine or revive their process with support you deserve.

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

** Registration for this event is closed you must have attended Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process #1 and Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance to register for this class. **

This is an eight week intensive course. You must be available for the following dates in order to take this class:

• Tuesday, October 1 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 8 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 15 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 22 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 29 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 5 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 12 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 19 from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Once you are registered for this initial course on October 1, you will be automatically registered for the rest of the dates listed above. Please read the course description carefully.

Location: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 2nd Floor Classroom 
           5757 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 220 Los Angeles, CA 90036

Instructor: Caryn West

Description:

Join Caryn West for Advanced Scene Study: Deeping Your Process!

Take another deep dive into characters in film and theater scenes, from script analysis to a full footing.

A course to reawaken your body and inventive spirit taxed by too many instant self tapes deadlines.

Here is a space to go slow and examine new ways to move, think, listen, and play. Try out more roles that the biz may not see you doing but can truly stretch you past typecasting.

Focus on process and the freedom to fail, get constructive feedback on experiments, stretching outside of your comfort zone, overcoming rust and a De-emphasis on Results.

Work on 1 scene and one monologue luxuriously and slowly over weeks 2-8.

Class One: Bring a NEW monologue preferably with ancestral voices and experience. Movement and vocal warm-ups. scenes and partners assigned. Suggest a type of material that would stretch you past your obvious casting or typical genre strength.

Class Two and Three: Table reads before ANY rehearsal and text analysis without self tape result speed. Bring in the event, your roles function, genre, who is the writer .

Class Four: Movement warm-up and first footings, exploring the character in body and space, exercises for personalization and being present. Monologues.

Class Five and Six: Monologues off book.  Improving the Scene. Exploring On set ways to be ready.

Class Seven to Eight: The Freedom to keep making mistakes. Fully memorized. Listening to yourself and your partner Staged with props and costumes.

Note: This is only for participants of Scene Study: From Table Read To Performance. Actors need to rehearse outside of the class to prepare scenes. This is for actors who want to have to continue to have fun and explore without judgment. Actors are encouraged to stretch with characters they may not get cast as and re-examine or revive their process with support you deserve.

Questions? Please email conservatory@sagaftra.org.

This workshop is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing. Unfortunately, no guests allowed. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian. This workshop is not intended to imply an endorsement of any individual or company by SAG-AFTRA. The information provided through the workshop is given for informational purposes and may not be a suitable substitute for the advice of other industry professionals. You should always use good judgment in these matters and should not act or refrain from acting based solely on information provided through the workshop.

Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 
 

Join SAG-AFTRA along with other unions on Sunday, October 6, as we gather to honor the legacy of the late Theodore Bikel, celebrating his profound contributions to labor, the arts and his lasting impact on the creative community.

There will be a ceremonial unveiling of "Theodore Bikel Square" outside SAG-AFTRA Plaza, followed by a special reception and musical performance inside SAG-AFTRA Plaza dedicated to his memory marking the centennial of his birth. This celebration serves as a heartfelt tribute to a remarkable artist whose work transcended generations and left an indelible mark on the world of labor, music, film, and theater.

This event is made possible by the support of the Office of Los Angeles Councilwoman 5th District Katy Yaroslavsky, SAG-AFTRA, the Actors Federal Credit Union and the Theodore Bikel Legacy Project, as we celebrate his lasting impact on the creative community.

When: Sunday, October 6 at 2 p.m. PT
Where: SAG-AFTRA Plaza, 5757 Wilshire Blvd at 677-699 South Curson Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036

Theodore Bikel Square is the intersection of Curson Ave. & Wilshire Blvd by the A.W. Ross Statute.

Parking: Please park in the SAG-AFTRA Plaza garage off of Curson Ave. and bring your parking ticket for validation.

RSVP: Deadline to RSVP below is Tuesday, October 1.

Questions? Reach out to LARSVP@sagaftra.org.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This event is by invitation only and there is very limited space. Please do not share the registration link or event information.

About Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel, president of the Actors’ Equity Association from 1973 to 1982 and of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America from 1987 to 2015, died July 21, 2015 at 91.

The late SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard said, “Theo Bikel was a masterful actor whose indelible performances on stage and screen are eclipsed only by his contributions to the quality of life of his fellow performers. He was a man of the world in the highest sense, and his was a life fully lived. He used his time on this earth — nearly a century — well and unselfishly, and remained throughout his life committed to artistry, activism, inspiration and achievement.”.  

Born in Vienna on May 2, 1924, Bikel wore many hats in his long and generous life: award-winning actor of stage, screen and television, musician, singer (in 21 languages), songwriter, author, teacher, labor leader and humanitarian.

On Broadway, he was the original Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. For lovers of the 1964 film My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn, Bikel was a Hungarian phonetics expert who attempts to unmask Eliza Doolittle as a fraud — and fellow Hungarian. In 1967, he first played the lead role of Tevye in the original national touring company of Fiddler on the Roof and went on to play the role in subsequent productions more than any other actor — over 2,000 performances. Television viewers saw him play comedy and drama in multiple categories of programming from the 1950s to the 2000s: classic mystery dramas Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone; westerns Wagon Train, Rawhide, Gunsmoke; crime series Columbo, LA Law, Law & Order and Murder, She Wrote; science fiction shows Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5 and a poignant serio-comic turn in two episodes of All in The Family.

Bikel’s first union involvement came with Actors’ Equity, which he joined in 1954. He was active in the Equity strike in 1960 and elected to the Equity Council in 1962. He became Equity’s first vice president in 1964, ascending to the presidency nine years later.

President Jimmy Carter appointed him to a five-year term on the National Council on the Arts in 1977. He was a vice president of The International Federation of Actors/ Fédération Internationale des Acteurs (FIA) from 1981-1991, a board member of Amnesty International, and senior vice president of the American Jewish Congress.

Bikel received numerous honors in his later years: a Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Hartford in 1992, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Seton Hall University in 2001. The spring of 2005 brought more accolades to Bikel: That April he received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in the Live Performance category, located at 6233 Hollywood Blvd. He was also paid tribute to in the Congressional Record on May 3 and was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles two weeks later. The AFL-CIO convention in September 2009 honored Bikel with a resolution for his accomplishments as “the epitome of a Renaissance Man. Not content with a robust and diverse résumé as a multi-hyphenate performer, Theodore Bikel also leads a life committed to social justice.”

It was an enviable career with Bikel always in demand. As he told the Jewish Daily Forward in 2013, “I was never at a loss for work, for what to do next. I never had to wait for the telephone to ring to offer me a job. It’s been a good life.”

Bikel was widowed in 2012 when his third wife, conductor and music teacher Tamara Brooks, passed away suddenly. He is survived by his wife, journalist Aimee Ginsburg, who he married in 2013, sons Robert and Daniel, and a grandson, Wolfram.