LAURENCE OVERMIRE has had a multi-faceted career as actor, poet, director, educator and genealogist. He embarked on an acting career while studying theatre at Muskingum University in Ohio and obtaining his M.F.A. at the University of Minnesota. He was awarded a Bush Fellowship to become a professional actor with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis where he worked with such prominent directors as Alan Schneider, Richard Foreman, Garland Wright and Liviu Ciulei, as well as actors Val Kilmer and Patti LuPone. He then went on to a successful career on stage, film and television in New York, Hollywood and points-in-between including the Broadway production of Amadeus directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Frank Langella and Mark Hamill, the network television soap operas All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns, One Life to Live and Loving, Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, Charles Busch's zany Off-Broadway hits Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party, Equity Library Theatre, Roy Brocksmith's California Cottage Theatre, The Nashville Institute of the Arts, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Totem Pole Playhouse and Yale Repertory Theatre. Overmire moved to Los Angeles in 1991, where he served as Executive Producer of The Writer's Lab, a non-profit organization to promote quality writing in the entertainment industry. For over 30 years, he has been involved in teaching in the arts, designing programs for Lincoln Center Institute of New York City, Manhattan Theatre Club, Meadow Brook Theatre, Lakewood Center for the Arts and Oregon Children's Theatre among others.
