Ron
Marasco studied acting at the Moscow Art Theatre and
has a Ph.D. in Theatre from UCLA. As an actor, on television,
Marasco has appeared on The West Wing, The
X-Files, Family Law, Judging Amy,
Murphy Brown, Good-Vs-Evil, Charmed, Martial
Law Enterprise, and Nip/Tuck. He played the
role of Mr. Caspar on, the short-lived but critically
acclaimed Freeks and Geeks. He had the lead in
the film Oakland Underground directed by Emmy-winner
Michael Goorjian. Onstage, in New York and Los Angeles,
Marasco has appeared in such plays as Sophistry,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, American Iliad,
School For Wives, Modigliani,Ghetto
at the Mark Taper Forum, Casual Sex at the Groundlings
and in the Los Angeles premiere of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn
Ahrens musical Lucky Stiff. Among his directing
credits are Julius Caesar, Fifth Of July,
The Man Who Came To Dinner, Twelfth Night,
The Black Pope, and Noises Off. In Oxford,
England he directed and acted in the premier of Lancelot
-- a production that also toured throughout Italy.
He won the 1997 La Weekly Award as Best Director
for his production of Modigliani. The play also
won for Best Revival. For the same production he won
a Drama-Logue Award for directing and one for
acting in the production. He teaches at Loyola Marymount
University where he was recently awarded a College Fellowship
to complete a book about acting.
