Ed Schiff Biography

s a veteran actor and director with over 100 stage, film and television credits. Theatre credits include The Black Picture Show at New York's Lincoln Center, The Rainmaker at George Street Playhouse, Vincent by Leonard Nimoy, Play it Again Sam with Robert Morse, Murder at the Howard Johnson's with Bob Denver, Not with My Daughter with Robert Cummings, Born Yesterday with Broderick Crawford and Charley's Aunt with Donald O'Connor. Musical credits include The Fantasticks (El Gallo), Music Man (Harold Hill), Man of La Mancha (Quixote/Cervantes), I Do, I Do (Michael) and The Sound of Music (Captain Von Trapp). On television, he was seen on One Life to Live and Grapevine. Ed was the Joshua Logan Scholar in Theatre at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton where he received both his M.A. and B.A. degrees. He also studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Stella Adler in New York, and for five years was the artistic director of Hollywood Performing Arts in Hollywood, Florida.