Armin Shimerman is a professional actor with over 200 roles on camera and nearly 100 on stage. He has directed 5 stage plays and written 6 novels; the last was just published this last January. He also served for seven years as a National Board member for the Screen Actors Guild and was the Associate Artistic Director for the Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale. In addition, he is a highly acclaimed professor of Shakespeare and was an adjunct professor at the USC School of Drama. Among his many charitable endeavors, he is one of the three founders of Trek Against Pancreatic Cancer which supports the Pancreatic Cancer Action
Network.