Dakin Matthews, has a long and distinguished history of work in film, television, and theater, He has dramaturged Shakespeare for the country’s leading directors, including Jack O’Brien, Dan Sullivan, Darko Tresnjak, Michael Sexton, and John Rando, and has coached numerous actors in Shakespearean roles, including Denzel Washington, Neil Patrick Harris, and Camryn Manheim. A founding member of John Houseman’s influential Acting Company, Mr. Matthews has headed the Antaeus Company in Los Angeles, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and the California Actors Theatre. His film credits include roles in Nuts, Thirteen Days, and the Coen brothers’ remake of True Grit. His many TV appearances have made him familiar to fans of Dallas, Desperate Housewives,General Hospital, House, Jeff Foxworthy, The King of Queens, Murder She Wrote, NYPD Blue, The Practice, The West Wing, and Two and a Half Men. He is a member of both the Motion Picture and the Television Academies. He has appeared in over thirty feature films, TV movies, and miniseries, and made over three hundred appearances in episodic television, performing as a regular or recurring character in ten different series. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University East Bay. He has also taught at Juilliard, ACT in San Francisco, USD/Globe MFA Program, the Actors Center in NY, the Antaeus Company, and CalArts. He has given workshops in Shakespearean verse-speaking around the world.
You can see him on Broadway this fall in WAITRESS.