Amos Glick Joined Company: 2006 First Improv Class: 1983 Web Site: www.amosglick.com Myspace.com: http://www.myspace.com/amosglick   Contact: company@improv.org Since moving to the Bay Area in 1990 Amos has spent most of his professional life learning from and working with the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He has appeared in 15 productions with the famed company and became a collective member in 1997. Currently he is performing as “Dubya” in The Dick & Dubya Show: A Republican Outreach Cabaret (which he also co-wrote) wherever he can book it.

Amos has taught Physical Theater and Improvisation workshops all over the country and in Italy and Germany. Other acting credits include: Vince in Tape and Bryan in A Gentler Place, both with The Alternative Theatre Ensemble; Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelth Night, Bottom and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both with SF Shakespeare Festival; Great Big Little Panther in Peter Pan with the Marin Shakespeare Company and Envelope Boy in Envelope Boy. He also participated in the partially improvised opera, Smoke x 7, with The Tenderloin Opera Company.

Amos has been a sketch comedian, clown, puppeteer and improviser with: The New Pickle Circus, True Fiction Magazine, Tonal Chaos, The Management, Monkey Thump, Klezmermania, Nothing to Hide, Metropolis, Bread and Puppet, and others. He appeared as Neal in the film Around the Fire and as Jimmy Chuffa in the TV show Nash Bridges. He also plays guitar and mandolin with Charity Kahn & The Jamband and The Bastard Brothers.

Q&A With Amos Glick

First BATS Show: A Theatresports show in 1990...or 1991...

Favorite Formats: Spontaneous Broadway, Shakespeare, anything with music

Funniest Moment on the BATS Stage: A scene with William Hall in a Shakespeare show where I was a prince and he was “The Man of The Woods”

Improv Advice: Breathe, wait, breathe, look into your scene partners eyes, GO!

Artistic Influences: Grover, Tim Conway, Jerry Lewis, Pee Wee Herman, Grateful Dead, Martin Short, The Simpsons, Star Trek, European style clowning

Favorite Movies: Spinal Tap, Sleeper, Man Bites Dog, Europa, Europa, The Matrix, Funny Bones and so many more...

Favorite Music: Beatles, Grateful Dead, Violent Femmes, The Waifs, Pink Floyd, Bluegrass, so much more...

Favorite Theatre: The SF Mime Troupe, Lume Theater ( Brazil), European style clowning