Bill Bowers

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As an actor, mime and educator, Bill Bowers has traveled throughout all 50 of the United States, Europe and Asia. His Broadway credits include Zazu in The Lion King and Leggett in The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Bowers has written and performed his own plays Off-Broadway and in theaters around the world. These plays include: ‘Night Sweetheart ‘Night Buttercup, Under a Montana Moon, It Goes Without Saying, Beyond Words and All Over the Map.

Hailed by critics as “the great American mime," Bowers has won top honors at festivals throughout the world. The New York Times writes, “To watch Bill Bowers is to see the technical elements of a style that brings Marcel Marceau readily to mind, joined to the American West. Mime can be wonderful — the air between him and us is his palette.”

He is featured in the film Two Weeks Notice and on television in Disney’s Out of the Box, Remember W.E.N.N., One Life to Live, All My Children, and the PBS documentary series Brief but Spectacular.

Bowers holds an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and an Honorary PhD from Rocky Mountain College. A student of the legendary Marcel Marceau, he presently serves on the faculties of NYU, Stella Adler Studios, and the William Esper Studio.